Pastor Mack Morris pulled out a pair of scissors during his sermon Sunday and cut up a pair of Nike wristbands and a Nike headband before tossing them to the side and proclaiming, “I ain’t using that no more.”
Morris, the pastor at Woodridge Baptist Church in Mobile, Alabama, also told the congregation, “I’ve bought my last pair of Nike shoes.”
Morris’s comments came during a sermon titled “The Storms of Life.” During his introduction, he began talking about how Christians in America are expected to be silent in their opposition to sin. He also pushed back against the recent emphasis on building relationships with people and using the relationship as a platform to talk about the Gospel.
Morris summarized his point saying, “Why is it that everyone else in the world can say what they want about what’s right and what’s wrong, we preachers and we Christians, we’re supposed to go in our churches, lock the doors, keep it here, be gentle, and be tolerant, and love us, and let us do what we want to do.” Then he added, “I don’t know about you, but I’m a little tired of that,” to which the congregation responded with amens.
Morris opened his discussion about Nike by saying that, “Some of our values are being strained.” He told the congregation that he had been wearing Nike jogging shoes since 1980, before declaring, “I’ve bought my last pair of Nike…
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