{"id":73792,"date":"2025-03-27T16:40:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T16:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=73792"},"modified":"2025-03-27T16:40:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T16:40:28","slug":"pastor-marvin-sapp-accused-of-holding-congregation-hostage-and-refusing-to-let-them-leave-until-collection-plate-hit-40k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/27\/pastor-marvin-sapp-accused-of-holding-congregation-hostage-and-refusing-to-let-them-leave-until-collection-plate-hit-40k\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastor Marvin Sapp accused of holding congregation &#8216;HOSTAGE&#8217; and refusing to let them leave until collection plate hit $40k"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/03\/27\/14\/96631127-14542945-Marvin_Sapp_58_has_come_under_fire_after_a_video_resurfaced_of_h-a-11_1743084535693.jpg\" alt=\"Marvin Sapp, 58, has come under fire after a video resurfaced of him directing ushers to 'close the doors' at an unknown church and demanding attendees donate $40,000.\u00a0'Ushers, close the doors,' he said, each time more forcefully, trapping 1,000 churchgoers inside\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A megachurch leader and gossip singer is under fire for using some very aggressive tactics to get his congregation to cough up $40,000 in donations.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14542945\/pastor-marvin-sapp-megachurch-congregation-hostage-collection-plate.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A megachurch leader and gossip singer is under fire for using some very aggressive tactics to get his congregation to cough up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-73792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Marvin-Sapp.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73794,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73792\/revisions\/73794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}