![]() We are told we’re created in the image of God, but every conversation of our bodies is cloaked in shame and sin while naming everyone but ourselves as the owners of our personhood. His sermon engages a long history of men preaching about the bodies of women with themselves, their opinions, and desirability as it concerns us as the center. Todd’s choice to shame a trend that he’s obviously been scrolling through is just the tipping point of hypocrisy in the pulpit. Todd’s use of the Silhouette Challenge, however, is strange and begs the question Jameelah Jones asks: “How do you know about the silhouette challenge and what women are showing under their clothes?” Given that Pastor has likely curated his timeline to like-minded people and that there are no accidents in the algorithm, to see so many of a very specific niche challenge means that one has attuned their algorithm to it through consistent engagement. Male pastors often choose to parade the bodies of women – who make up the majority of congregations – through their sermons. Yet this sermonic moment lacked a challenge to men to consider their mindset while pushing performative modesty onto women in Jesus’s name. It feels like stating the obvious here but if a man doesn’t want to get to know me after seeing the illusion of nudity, the problem is his intention, not my actions. Yet, Todd drops the ball when speaking to women, diminishing our worth to the sum of our body parts. In an attempt at equity, Todd does put the onus on other men in his sermon, asking them to “be a husband that is not trying to impress his college buddies, but be an anchor for your family that may not be as impressive on the ‘gram but you’re impacting the next generation to love and lead their families.” These words see the fullness of men’s humanity and speak to the height of their potential to hold families together and heal generational cycles of brokenness. Todd may be the most recent voice admonishing women to not seek to be impressive with their bodies, but his words echo a generations-long tradition of the church’s repression of women’s bodies and sexuality. If you would like to try Audible, using our link to sign up for a trial will get you up to 2 free audiobooks.Let’s call a thing a thing, here. ![]() Both of these books are also available on Audible. ***If you are in need of a resource to help you discuss different false teachings with the people in your life, we highly recommend these 2 books- A Field Guide on False Teaching by Ligonier ministries and Kingdom of the Cults by Walter Martin. Thanks to all our readers and viewers for your support! ![]() It’s a great way to help us cover the costs associated with running this site and creating content without it costing our readers/viewers anything. That means that if you choose to do some amazon shopping using the links on this page, we will receive a small commission at no cost to you. ***Disclaimer - Some of these product links are affiliate links. We do not endorse anything on these sites that deviates from the Bible or with our beliefs listed on our “What We Believe” page or our “Who We Are” page. We do our best to only share links that are from sound sources, but sometimes things could get missed. Please read with all of this in mind.ĭisclaimer: We did not write/create the resources linked below, and we have not thoroughly vetted every website these links come from. We are also told in Scripture to name those who are false teachers and to not associate with unfruitful works of darkness (Eph. We would hope someone would love us enough to tell us when there was evidence that someone we followed was unsound and could be leading us astray. We present this information out of love for our brothers and sisters in Christ. We will add to it as we find more information. This post exists to provide links and information explaining why this teacher/resource is unsound, false, and should NOT be used or followed.
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