The pastor had held the spit in one hand as he used the other to touch the shoulder of a man standing beside him with his eyes closed. …
Pastor Michael Todd has apologized after being criticized for spitting in his hand and rubbing it on a congregation member’s face.
“God’s saying, ‘Can you physically and spiritually and emotionally … stand when getting the vision or receiving it might get nasty?’” Todd had asked.
Then, the pastor of Transformation Church rubbed his hands together, turned to the man and smeared his spit across the man’s face.
Parishioners gasped and groaned.
Things got heated up after the clip went viral with many criticizing the man of God.
People questioned Todd’s theatrics as coronavirus infections in Oklahoma have jumped 56 percent in the past week, according to The Washington Post’s covid-19 tracker.
Todd said he regretted his action.
He took to Twitter and Facebook to apologize, calling his actions “disgusting” and saying they “crossed the line.” Todd said he’s passionate about giving people hope, “so much so that I try to do extreme things.”
“That was a distraction to what I was really trying to do,” he said in a video message. “I was really trying to make the Word come alive and for people to see the story. But yesterday it got too live, and I own that.”
