Drug addict turned evangelist Todd White openly confessed that he has been undergoing a spiritual transformation and has shifted how he teaches the Bible.
White, who is the founder and president of Lifestyle Christianity, preached a sermon on Sunday noting that God had been strongly dealing with him in the past six months.
White started out by offering an analogy by modern evangelist Ray Comfort who insisted that there is a fine line between a man-centered gospel and the Good News of Jesus Christ.
Noting that the “Bible says we are dead in our sin,” White then shared that he feels “like I just met Jesus again! There’s just this rekindled thing inside of me.”
“This has been the hardest season of my life,” he shared. “I’m like, ‘Lord, what are you doing?’ He said, ‘I’m pruning every branch that you have.’ I’m like, ‘It’s not OK. It hurts.’ And He said, ‘If you were dead, it wouldn’t hurt. There are parts of you that need to die. I’m going to kill them.’”
White shared that this convicted him and showed him that he had not been preaching “the whole Gospel.”
“I repent!” White exclaimed. “You have no idea. I will not be responsible. I believe that when I preach that the blood of people is on my hands.”
White also rebuked the modern church for preaching a feel-good message instead of addressing sin and stressing repentance.
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