‘She had the opportunity to talk about the death, the burial, the resurrection of Jesus Christ. She had the opportunity to bring people into the faith’
By Hailey Gomez, Daily Caller News Foundation
180 Church Senior Pastor Lorenzo Sewell called out Mariann Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, D.C., on Wednesday evening during an appearance on Fox News for her lecture of President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
During Tuesday’s National Prayer Service, Budde lectured both Trump and Vance, pleading for their administration to show “mercy” to illegal immigrants and “gay, lesbian, and transgender children,” who she said “fear for their lives.” On “The Ingraham Angle,” host Laura Ingraham asked Sewell for his thoughts on Budde and the message she delivered.
“I was in her service. I was physically sitting next to the First Family. What was so sad about this bishop, she had the opportunity to preach the gospel,” Sewell said.
“She had the opportunity to talk about the death, the burial, the resurrection of Jesus Christ. She had the opportunity to bring people into the faith,” Sewell added. “It was a salvific moment instead of using the authority of the word of God to preach the message of Christ and to draw our president closer to Jesus. She used it to practice what I call theological and spiritual malpractice.”
Following her public criticism of Trump and Vance, Budde appeared on ABC’s “The View” Wednesday, telling the hosts that her goal had been to preach “unity” and “emphasize respecting the honor and dignity of every human being, basic honesty, and humility.” Sewell responded by criticizing Budde’s sermon, calling her the “worst preacher” he had ever heard, and said he had stayed after the service to pray for Trump.