Tennessee preacher
Greg Locke says demons told him names of witches in his church
Controversial
Tennessee preacher Greg Locke has turned from claims of election fraud to
conversations with demons.
February 15, 2022
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(RNS) —
The offering was over and the worship team at Global Vision Bible Church had
just finished singing “Oh How I Love Jesus” when the Rev. Greg Locke began
telling his church about his conversations with demons.
Those
demons, he said, had revealed the names of a group of “full-blown,
spell-casting” witches who’d been sent to infiltrate Global Vision, a
nondenominational church east of Nashville, Tennessee, where Locke is pastor.
“To God
be the glory, I lie not,” he told the congregation at Global Vision on Sunday
(Feb. 13), which was meeting in a packed tent on the church’s property. “We got
first and last names of six witches that are in our church. And you know what’s
strange, three of you are in this room right now.”
Locke told
the congregation that he’d gotten the names while casting a demon out of a
woman who had recently begun coming to Global Vision. The preacher, known for
his sensationalist sermons about politics and COVID-19 skepticism — went on to
describe the exorcism in detail, quoting a demon with scruffy voice who accused
worshippers at the church of being witches.
Two of the witches were in his wife’s Bible
study, said Locke, who warned the alleged witches not to make a move during his
sermon. He then retold the New Testament story of Jesus casting a demon out of
a man and into a herd of pigs, turning it into an extended monologue about
witches in the church.
“You so much as cough wrong and I’ll expose in
front of everybody under this tent, you stinking spell-casting, pharmakeia devil
worshipping and mongrel,” he said, using a Greek word that sometimes describes
those who practice witchcraft or sorcery. “You were sent to destroy this
church.”
In recent years Locke has used his sermons to
attack LGBTQ people, accuse Democratic politicians of child abuse, spread
claims about election fraud, denounce vaccines and claim that the COVID-19
pandemic is a hoax. During Sunday’s sermon, he blamed witchcraft for an
outbreak of illness in the church.
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I wonder if this preacher will face any kind of consequences for spreading false (and dangerous) information about the vaccine. I know in many areas of the US this same thing is occurring, which is scary because it could be happening in areas without reliable leaders to spread the truth about Covid-19 vaccines. I hope this preacher is held accountable for endangering his church.
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