Close The Doors!

Pass The Mic

The Witness

Christianity, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

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🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Inspired by Bishop Marvin Sapp's Controversial Church Donation Tactics, this week on Pass The Mic we are unpacking church traditions that might need to be examined for 2025 and beyond. Whether its 'Preachers with Props', viral church moments, a lack of pastoral vetting, or an excess of gatekeeping, practices across all denominations are not above critique and should be interrogated as to their value in true Kingdom work. For those that missed it: Gospel legend and bishop Marvin Sapp faced major backlash after a resurfaced sermon clip from the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World convention went viral. In the video, Sapp instructs ushers to close the church doors until each of the 1,000 attendees donates $20, aiming to raise $40,000 on the spot. He even challenges the live stream viewers to do the same and tells pastors on stage to give $100 each. #MarvinSapp #ChurchControversy #GospelMusic #ChristianNews #ViralVideo #PentecostalChurch #MarvinSappSermon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.5	Dynamic voices for a diverse church. This is Pass the Mic. Greetings and God bless.
0:37.8	Welcome to another episode of Pass the Mic, Dynamic Voices for a diverse church,
0:41.4	powered by The Witness, a black Christian collective.
0:44.1	I'm your host, G. Tyler Burns.
0:45.3	You can follow me on Instagram at G. Tyler Burns.
0:48.1	Please follow at your own risk.
0:50.4	And joining me, as always, is the founder of the witness.
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1:05.2	I like how you pointed me at strategic parts, like dynamic? Like, I'm'm a dynamic voice but then also follow at your
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1:19.4	the bishop you just need to put the comments out you have some funny comments you wanted to read
1:23.1	so are they funny well this funny, ridiculous kind of thing.
1:28.0	Okay.
1:28.3	All right.
1:28.5	So, all right, you remember that video with, they were showing worship at the White House, Sean Foyt.
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