A month after Transformation Church in Tulsa, OK, hosted a celebration of life for the late pro-choice, pro-LGBTQ, hell-denying, Trinity-denying, Universalist, Unitarian Bishop Carlton Pearson, with lead pastor Michael Todd praising him as a “man of God” who faithfully lived out the gospel message, Todd reiterated his contempt for the scriptures by trashing the stage and pouring syrup and whipped cream all over a bible and communion elements as part of a grotesque sermon illustration.
Transformation Church is led by pastor Michael Todd, the fashion-obsessed leader known for crowd surfing during his church’s worship service, preaching some good old-fashioned Modalism, and giving the world perhaps the grossest illustration in church after he (twice) snorted and then hocked a loogie full of spit and snot into his hand and rubbed it in another man’s face.
He recently had a service where ballet dancers with bare butts danced around the stage and, in a recent sermon, offered a muddled, confused, contradictory, and seeming apology for what God’s word says about homosexuality. Further, one of their pastors justifies his continual cussing by confessing : ‘I have never felt a conviction of the Holy Spirit’, argued on his podcast that belief in the Trinity is a non-essential issue, and that it should NOT be considered cheating if a married man is caught dancing and twerking with another woman.
During his Fit to Finish sermon, where Todd focuses on the importance of eating healthily, he insists that the Holy Spirit spoke to him during a time of prayer and told him, “Michael, I only can bless the ministry to the level your body can take it.”
Despite that being stupid, unbiblical, and completely made up, he claims he ignored the Spirit for several years, but then finally came around and started eating better a few years ago and getting in shape. Using a set to represent a human body, Todd trashes it, along with a bible, questioning why his congregation is crying out because they never cared about their body before.
Perhaps someone should tell Todd that if you have to ruin a bible for a sermon illustration, it’s a very, very bad illustration.
