Transformation Church’s Lead Pastor Michael Todd is known for crowd surfing during his church’s worship service and spending a lot of money. In the last two years, he’s given away $3,500,000 in houses, cash, and cars, spent $65,000 to buy 168 pairs of shoes, gave $600,000 away in “reparations” and gave away a million dollars in a recent sermon series.
He’s also known for frequently appearing on Preachers n Sneakers Instagram account for wearing insanely expensive clothing and for his disgusting sermon illustration in church after he snorted and then hocked a loogie full of spit and snot into his hand and rubbed it in another man’s face. Recently, he also preached a heretical view of the Trinity that failed in every way possible, describing Jesus, the Father, and the Holy Ghost not as persons, but rather “expressions” of God. Ie. Modalism.
As part of his “Cuffing” sermon series, which prominently features a pair of furry pink handcuffs and all the innuendo and baggage associated with that, Todd preached on the importance of not getting ‘cuffed’ to negative comments, using Nehemiah as his sermon illustration and how Nehemiah was able to shrug off the mean comment and threats from Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite when he was rebuilding the temple.
Purposefully, as part of his sermon illustration, he wore a shirt of his wife with the caption ‘Hot Girl Summer,’ giving the congregation and the hundreds of thousands of people who stream his service an upfront look at her in a two-piece. He would later have ‘mean comments’ overlayed across his stream, reinforcing his point (the pop-ups are part of the church feed) that he should just ignore the comments.
Todd explains his justification for wearing the shirt, with the video showing his incredulity that all these prudish dum-dum haters would dare be offended by his shirt, all to the cheering and approval of the crowd.
Today, there’ll be comments about the sermon. People will comment good things, people will comment bad things. They will be mad because I had a picture of my wife on my shirt in a bathing suit.
‘How’s a pastor gonna get up there tempting everybody?’
But if you go on Forever 21, right now, your daughter has on a shirt with somebody they don’t know, in a bathing suit right now, and you- I love her and she wears bathing suits. Gasp! First Ladies wear bathing suits. Oh my God.
I’m so done with church people.
What I’m saying to you is ‘comment on it. I don’t care’. Next week, we’re going to Miami, we’re gonna be a Vu conference, and I’m gonna get comments, and I’m gonna do what God called me to do.
All over the screen, comments, but I’m gonna preach.”
Bonus meme
