Todd acknowledged that his style isn’t “everybody’s preference,” but he said, “It’s something that I’m uniquely gifted to do. It’s how it comes to me. It’s how I see it.”
Todd said that sometimes he will think of a sermon illustration on Sunday morning before service and has to send someone from his team to Target or Walmart to pick up something to use as a prop. He said that the reason he puts so much effort into his sermon illustrations is because he wants people who might be struggling with a sin or a difficult life circumstance to “actually consider what is being said.”
Talking about the times when a sermon illustration doesn’t go over well, Todd said, “That’s part of the space of trying.”
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“I think this is the epidemic that we’re dealing with in our culture right now. So many people are paralyzed to try, because there will be failure,” Todd continued. “And when there is failure, their character is not built up to withstand the criticism that comes after failure.”
Todd said that God grows his faith through the process of failure.
“Every time that something has gone viral or something has been misconstrued, what God is doing is making me,” Todd said. “People don’t understand [that] they’re a part of the process of God actually refining me. He’s literally teaching me how to focus on him. He’s literally teaching me how to preserve. He’s literally teaching me.”
“So they want to say something about my clothes, and I gotta get back up there in six days,” said Todd. “So now I have to have faith in what [God] said about me over what anybody said about me.”
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“So it’s the perfecting of my faith. It’s the persecution and being misunderstood and knowing every time that I get up there, if I don’t shrink back, somebody, even if it’s one person in a penitentiary, is gonna find Jesus,” Todd said.
