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Pass The Mic

Close The Doors!

Pass The Mic

The Witness

Christianity, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 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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0:00.0

Dynamic Voices for a Diverse Church. This is Pass the Mic.

0:11.1

Greetings and God bless. Welcome to another episode of Pass the Mike, dynamic voices for a

0:15.0

diverse church, powered by the Witness, a Black Christian collective. I'm your host, G. Tyler

0:19.4

Burns. You can follow me on Instagram

0:21.1

at G. Tyler Burns. Please follow at your own risk. And joining me, as always, is the founder of the witness. He has a very extensive bio, the man, the myth, the legend, the three-time bestselling author, Mr. Bluecheck verified himself. Follow his writings at Jammar Tisbee.substack.com. Dr. Jamar Tizby, what's going on, bro?

0:39.6

I like how you pointed me at Strzbo. check verified himself follow his writings at jemar tisbee.substack.com. Dr. Jamar Tisby was going on,

0:39.3

bro. I like how you pointed me at strategic parts like dynamic, like I'm a dynamic voice,

0:45.4

but then also follow at your own risk. You caught that. Yeah. So I don't know what all those

0:51.1

means, but okay. Subtext. We hear with we hear with the bishop you just need to put the

0:55.0

comments out you have some funny comments you wanted to read uh so we are they funny well this is

1:00.8

funny ridiculous kind of thing okay yeah so all right you remember that video with uh they were showing

1:06.7

worship at the white house so Sean Foyt and it was the most mayonnaise on white bread worship you could imagine.

1:16.2

I like mayo, okay?

1:17.7

Let's not make mayo.

1:19.6

I'm not mad at mayo in the right context.

1:22.0

I get what you're saying.

1:22.7

Okay.

1:23.0

But mayo and white bread and that's it.

1:25.9

Is that your thing?

1:27.3

I could dig it with a little salt.

1:28.9

Well, we have to dive into that in therapy at some point. So I posted this and this lady

1:35.5

online on Instagram, we don't follow each other, but she wanted to hop in the comments.

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