Pastor Mike Todd, who has made headlines in the past for his outlandish object lessons, now has some people scratching their heads because of the outfit he wore in his latest sermon on Sunday, April 27. While his attire was not part of a sermon object lesson, some questioned why Todd was dressing like someone’s “auntie.”
“My friend, if you’re gonna talk about discipline, you can’t be up here preaching, man, and looking like an auntie,” said John K. Amanchukwu Sr., an activist and pastor at Upper Room Church of God in Christ in Raleigh, North Carolina. “Discipline? And bro, you wearing high-heeled shoes. Discipline?”
“And you’re looking all soft and effeminate,” Amanchukwu continued. “It makes no sense. Yes, talk about the issues that you’re addressing, but you too my friend need to make sure that you are not being undisciplined in the way that you groom yourself and present yourself.”
“We have a generation of young people who need to be taught, trained and, yes, disciplined,” said Amanchukwu. “And your image is betraying your message.”
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Mike Todd and his wife, Natalie, co-pastor Transformation Church, a nondenominational megachurch in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The church recently blessed 16 couples with a mass wedding ceremony in order to remove from them the burden of planning and paying for a wedding. The church even provided some marriage counseling for the couples prior to their big day.
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In March 2023, people were surprised to learn that disgraced former Hillsong NYC Pastor Carl Lentz had joined the staff at Todd’s church. Lentz later clarified that, despite being hired by the church, he was “no longer in ministry” and said the church had hired him to be a strategist.
In 2022, Todd made national and international headlines for a sermon illustration he used when preaching on Mark 8:22-30, which describes Jesus healing a blind man by spitting on the blind man’s eyes. For his illustration, Todd coughed up saliva into his hands before turning to his brother, who was onstage with him, and rubbing the spit over his brother’s face.
Todd later apologized, admitting the illustration was a “distraction” and calling it “too extreme and disgusting.”
The pastor has, however, continued to employ eyebrow-raising sermon illustrations, such as when he cuddled a mannequin in a bed onstage during a late 2022 sermon about relationships and when he poured syrup and whipped cream on a Bible during a sermon in 2024.
