{"id":319325,"date":"2025-03-28T22:12:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T03:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/celeb-pastor-john-gray-iii-reacts-to-marvin-sapps-viral-church-donation-request-2"},"modified":"2025-03-28T22:12:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T03:12:44","slug":"celeb-pastor-john-gray-iii-reacts-to-marvin-sapps-viral-church-donation-request-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/celeb-pastor-john-gray-iii-reacts-to-marvin-sapps-viral-church-donation-request-2","title":{"rendered":"Celeb Pastor John Grey III Reacts To Marvin Sapp&#039;s Viral Church Donation Request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"article__header--headline-fragments\">\n             <span class=\"article__header--hf1 text-uppercase h3\">Celeb Pastor John Gray III<\/span><br \/>\n             <span class=\"article__header--hf2 text-uppercase h1\">Reacts To Marvin Sapps Viral Church Donation Request<\/span><br \/>\n           <\/h2>\n<p>    <!--\/.social-media-container--><\/p>\n<p>\n            Published <time class=\"published-datetime\" datetime=\"2025-03-28T18:30:56-07:00\">March 28, 2025 6:30 PM PDT<\/time>\n                                      <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"41\">\n<section id=\"cb-5cb2b0a3d8328c36a0ea6e914f6cc941\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-video-block canvas-video-block-permalink canvas-video-block--default canvas-block-is-first \">\n<div class=\"video-block\">\n<div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9\">\n<div id=\"video-player-e754c97e-e783-41b0-8465-99f08e26711c-1736138791-image-holder\" class=\"ratio ratio-item video-block__image-holder\">\n     <button class=\"ratio-item icon-video--shadow video-block__icon\" id=\"video-player-e754c97e-e783-41b0-8465-99f08e26711c-1736138791-play-btn\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Play video content<\/span><br \/>\n     <\/button><br \/>\n          <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Chris Pratt\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/ef\/16by9\/2025\/03\/29\/ef1f03714a0e45db9a574956b8e43557_md.jpg\" alt=\"032825-john-w-gray-kal\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/>\n         <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>          <span class=\"media-credit video-block__media-credit\">TMZ.com<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-5cb2b0a3d8328c36a0ea6e914f6cc941--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-b0734d6058a9b434c0d28f35b45b8eef\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"30\">\n<p>Pastor to the stars <strong>John Gray III<\/strong> is reacting to <strong>Marvin Sapp<\/strong>&#8216;s viral Church donation request &#8212; telling ushers to close the doors until the congregation coughs up $40,000 &#8212; and he says culture and context are key.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-b0734d6058a9b434c0d28f35b45b8eef--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-5f41e81f1023a14217dcf9b546839cf6\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"28\">\n<p>John tells TMZ &#8230; Marvin is a good friend of his and he&#8217;s seen a lot worse donation requests in other churches.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-5f41e81f1023a14217dcf9b546839cf6--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-58fb34bc41426dcfbe8a7306d1fdd5e4\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-video-block canvas-video-block-permalink canvas-video-block--default \">\n<div class=\"video-block\">\n<div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9\">\n<div id=\"video-player-1934f65f-e57d-4f14-9727-172d5a6d129b-1809276128-image-holder\" class=\"ratio ratio-item video-block__image-holder\">\n     <button class=\"ratio-item icon-video--shadow video-block__icon\" id=\"video-player-1934f65f-e57d-4f14-9727-172d5a6d129b-1809276128-play-btn\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Play video content<\/span><br \/>\n     <\/button><br \/>\n          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/7d\/16by9\/2025\/03\/27\/7d05d297c9554f55aca0553d2355836c_md.jpg\" alt=\"032725-pastor-offering-kal-v2\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/>\n         <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-58fb34bc41426dcfbe8a7306d1fdd5e4--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-b2400f191c0ab71c88d68892cc6e3821\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"29\">\n<p>Pastor Gray says he understands why folks who weren&#8217;t at the service are upset with the way Marvin went about raising money &#8212; asking everyone in the crowd for $20 &#8212; and he tells us why culture and context are being left out of the conversation in sole favor of optics.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-b2400f191c0ab71c88d68892cc6e3821--><br \/>\n<a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-b319222984cf7928712b78a6ba9bfd9f\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-image-block canvas-image-block-permalink canvas-image-block--default canvas-image-block--aside \">\n<div class=\"image-block\">\n         <a class=\"media-link image-block__link js-track-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tubitv.com\/movies\/100038830\/tmz-presents-the-downfall-of-diddy-his-defense\"><br \/>\n             <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/1c\/16by9\/2025\/03\/21\/1cbb65842c70444cb9f1c446895c6f5a_md.jpg\" alt=\"Diddy-His-Defense-INLINE-PROMO-watch free\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-16by9\"\/><br \/>\n                 <\/a>\n   <\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-b319222984cf7928712b78a6ba9bfd9f--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-f7c8c67c1c0a9899e2ad5355c9cd7256\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"32\">\n<p>Tons of celebs follow Pastor Gray &#8230; <strong>Kourtney Kardashian<\/strong>, <strong>Ivanka Trump<\/strong>, <strong>Chris Pratt<\/strong>, <strong>Russell Wilson<\/strong> and <strong>Patrick Schwarzenegger<\/strong> just to name a few &#8230; and he tells us his church does reverse offerings where they put baskets of cash out and tell worshipers to take what they need to pay bills.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-f7c8c67c1c0a9899e2ad5355c9cd7256--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-f8575352a6f3787b5e34f52335200a00\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-video-block canvas-video-block-permalink canvas-video-block--default \">\n<div class=\"video-block\">\n<div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9\">\n<div id=\"video-player-2560ac50-cc95-4b8d-a703-b3f14dc17ce3-1300351519-image-holder\" class=\"ratio ratio-item video-block__image-holder\">\n     <button class=\"ratio-item icon-video--shadow video-block__icon\" id=\"video-player-2560ac50-cc95-4b8d-a703-b3f14dc17ce3-1300351519-play-btn\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Play video content<\/span><br \/>\n     <\/button><br \/>\n          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/a6\/16by9\/2025\/03\/28\/a6eeabb08ee647248a3ced8b1ac75a7d_md.png\" alt=\"marvin sapp\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/>\n         <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>          <span class=\"media-credit video-block__media-credit\">TMZ.com<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-f8575352a6f3787b5e34f52335200a00--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-03b8983d5931418561e56f953493f6b1\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default canvas-block-is-last \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\" readability=\"28\">\n<p>John says that&#8217;s what churches should be doing but he says fundraising is still a big part of lots of churches and he&#8217;s not going to bash Marvin like lots of folks are doing.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-03b8983d5931418561e56f953493f6b1--><\/p><\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2025\/03\/28\/celeb-pastor-john-gray-iii-reacts-marvin-sapp-viral-church-donation-request-close-them-doors\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celeb Pastor John Gray III Reacts To Marvin Sapps Viral Church Donation Request Published March 28, 2025 6:30 PM PDT Play video content TMZ.com Pastor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1075,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1075"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319328,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319325\/revisions\/319328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}