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Marvin Sapp Goes Viral For Telling Ushers To Close Church Doors Until Congregation Donates $40K
Marvin Sapp Goes Viral For Telling Ushers To Close Church Doors Until Congregation Donates $40K

Social media was set ablaze after a series of videos of Bishop Marvin Sapp started to circulate online. According to The Shade Room , the clips are of a sermon Sapp gave in which he asked his congregation to help him reach a $40,000 goal. In one clip , Sapp repeatedly instructed the church ushers to close the doors to keep the congregation from going anywhere. Sapp told churchgoers to open their wallets “We all gon’ leave together,” he said. “Y’all ain’t going no place but to the restaurant.” As the congregation laughed, Sapp explained that if the 1,000 people in the pews and the 1,000 people watching the service online gave $20, which he described as a “small seed,” it would total $40,000. “I’m challenging each of you all down here to give a $20 seed,” he said in the clip. He joked that $20 was a lot of money back when his late wife, MaLinda P. Sapp, was alive, and that amount would usually cover their movie date with popcorn and a drink. He told fellow clergy members to cough up...

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