Church-growth guru and Transformation Church pastor Tim Ross declared that he’s one of the greatest storytellers who ever lived, comparing himself to Jesus in terms of being anointed in his giftedness, but warns folks not to ask him to preach through the books of the Bible.
We last wrote about Ross after he said it shouldn’t be considered cheating for a married man to dance sexually, get twerked on, and slap the butt of a half-naked dancer. Then we featured him praising famed Modalist T.D. Jakes, while saying a belief in the Trinity is a secondary, non-essential issue and that it’s crazy for Christians to divide over Trinitarian doctrine. He also compared Jesus to a naked stripper that ‘puts bread in my pocket,’ mocked people upset about his lousy preaching, and said he’s never once felt convicted about cursing and cussing.
During a recent episode of Beyond the Letter podcast, he explained:
“I do two things. I stand up and preach and I sit down and talk. That’s what I’m anointed to do. That’s what God has approved for me to do.
You feel me? This is what he has approved me to do. So if I’m not standing up and preaching, or I’m not sitting down and talking, I’m doing something I don’t have his approval to do, which means I will languish in it in my own strength. I could still do it if I wanted to. That’s not what he has called me to do.”
Ross gets specific, explaining that as a pastor, he’s not called to preach through the biblical text verse by verse.
So do not call me If you want like, ‘hey, you know, we really want people to like become financially free and we would like you to do a teaching on financial freedom, we’re in a series and we want you to join that series.’
I’m not anointed to do that. I am one of the most gifted storytellers that God has ever put on planet Earth.
‘Tim, don’t say it like that because oh my God, you’re so conceited.’ Was Jesus conceited when he just said ‘the Spirit of the Lord is upon me?’ Or when Moses said I am the humblest person in the world.…If I cannot speak with confidence about what I’m anointed to do, then the enemy will trick me into thinking I can do something else.
Ie:
Don’t ask me to come in here, ‘hey, we’re walking through the book of Ephesians and we’re doing line by line, verse by verse.’ Call me when you’re done.
I tell the stories of the Bible. I can walk through the Bible, I’m a Bible teacher. I can walk through the Bible. The anointing is on my storytelling. When you need a story, holler at your boy. If you don’t want a story, don’t holler at your boy. When I sit down and talk on a podcast, the anointing is here. He’s approved me to do this. People’s lives change, even if they don’t like me.…The Spirit of the Lord is upon me to stand up and preach and sit down and talk. If I get audience with you, your life’s going to change….
