Pastor Michael Todd leads Transformation Church (TC.) He 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 in “reparations,” and purchased $66,000,000 in real estate.
He’s also known for preaching some good old-fashioned Modalism, giving the world perhaps the grossest 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 and claiming his church had 75k salvations in the last 18 months even though practically none of them stuck around. He recently had a service where ballet dancers with bare butts danced around the stage.
In a newly unearthed clip from October 2021, Todd explains that he hates studying and doing sermon prep, but will do so for his whole life because he has a “vision” from God.
Vision eliminates excuses. When you get a vision, excuses become irrelevant. I do tons of stuff I don’t like doing because of the vision that God’s given me. Can I be HOT with ya’ll? Humble, open, transparent? I don’t like studying to preach every Sunday. It is tedious work for me. I start on Wednesday, to get to Sunday, and I’m working on Thursday, and on Friday, and on Saturday, and I’m tweaking up until 30 minutes before service on Sunday. Every week.
I hate it. But I will do it for the rest of my life. Why? Because of the vision God has given me. I don’t have an excuse when God gives me vision. And this is why your excuses are louder than your production. It’s because you don’t have a vision. But let’s eliminate excuses by doing what? Getting a vision.
The fact that Todd doesn’t like studying to preach every Sunday is evident, as his sermons are generally terrible and have so little scripture or exegesis in them. What is shocking more than anything is his claim that he spends four days crafting them, as a braindead monkey with a pen taped to its hand and Chick Tract in the other could write a better sermon than he could.
While on occasion the research that goes into sermon prep can be a chore, by and large, it should be a joy and a desire to study the word of God and then bring it before the congregation. The fact that Todd finds this so tiresome and bothersome demonstrates that he’s not equipped for this even a bit.
h/t Kdubtru. For a longer commentary on this clip, watch this vid:
