Michael Todd's spit-on-the-congregant sermon story

• Was Michael Todd's spit demonstration an appropriate sermon illustration?

A host reads a Christian Post article about pastor Michael Todd of Transformation Church in Bixby, Oklahoma, drawing online ire after hawking loogies onto his younger brother's face during a Vision Sunday sermon illustration. Todd had framed the bit around Mark 8:22-26, the blind man at Bethsaida healed when Jesus spat on his eyes privately, claiming God separates people the way Jesus took the man outside the village. The hosts find the demonstration grotesque and note Jesus deliberately did the opposite of a public spectacle.