“What I’m telling you: how you just reacted is how the people in your life will react when God is doing what it takes for the miracle.”Īnyway, if shock value is what he was going for, sir, here is that attention you ordered. “And do you hear and see the responses of the people?” Todd said, addressing the negative reaction of congregants. When Todd spat, he made most of his audience want to gouge their eyes out. However, in Scripture, when Jesus spat, he opened blinded eyes. “And this is where most people would not face Jesus anymore,” Todd said, again coughing up and spitting mucus and phlegm into his palm. Some of those streaming the service from home took to the Internet to express their displeasure. To stress his point, Todd hawked up spit, cupped it in his hand and gave the volunteer- who just so happened to be his brother-a saliva facial in front of congregants as they gasped in horror. The 34-year-old author of Crazy Faith carried out the crazy act in the middle of a sermon discussing how “receiving vision from God might get nasty”-and he wasn’t kidding.

Major news outlets like TMZ, Newsweek, Daily Beast, and UK Daily Mail have picked up details of the story. No wonder it is capturing global headlines and triggering gag reflexes everywhere. Since Todd is not Jesus and has no healing powers in his spittle, the grotesque and arguably unsanitary move is particularly disturbing considering the raging coronavirus pandemic. We all want to be like Jesus, but an Oklahoma pastor may have taken things a bit too far.ĭuring a sermon illustration, Michael Todd of Transformation Church in Tulsa, spit on his hand multiple times and rubbed the saliva in the face of a parishioner, mimicking Jesus’ biblical acts of spitting on strangers to heal them.

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