Greg Locke’s Neighbors File Lawsuit Against Church for Zoning Violations
A week after Greg Locke reached ebullient highs after his strange and bizarre deliverance film “Come out in Jesus Name” made nearly a million dollars at the box office, Wilson County Director of development services Tom Brashear filed a lawsuit against Global Vision Bible Church, claiming a host of zoning violations, including excessive music and building without a proper permit.
Readers of Protestia will recognize Locke as the foul-mouthed, spouse-abandoning, Tennessee “pastor” who notoriously divorced his wife of two decades and quickly married his secretary, claimed that “Illuminati hand signals are controlling Mitch McConnell,” threatened a Dunkin’ Donuts worker with kicking his teeth down his throat, and recently said that if you deny the existence of tunnels under the White House or Capitol Building that were uncovered by the military and used to house both live and dead children, you’re just as complicit in the abuse as “crack-smoking perverts.”
Locke has been elbows deep in ‘deliverance ministry’ after a bunch of witches supposedly have been harassing his church and has partnered up with crackpot Isaiah Saldivar to help him get the problem under control.
Rather than a brick-and-mortar structure, Locke and his megachurch congregation meet in a large outdoor tent.
Following a raft of excessive noise complaints, nearly 90 lodged against them, he erected a new tent designed to have better sound isolation. Still, neighbors say there is scarely any dampening and want him to build a building or go away. So far, over 1800 people have signed a petition requesting that the County knock him for noise complaints.
Locke said he’s doing his best, but it’s not so easy, telling WKRN: “Every week, people will start to notice the sound getting less and less. To give a people an idea, we’ve literally grown 1,000 people per year every year the past three years…We grew so fast that a tent is really the only option. Even if we broke ground today, we would still need to be in a tent for two to three years.”
Neighbor Griff Akins, wants them to get on with it, declaring: “It’s been horrible. They only really care about themselves. It’s been a noise issue for the past two or three years….just build a building. There is plenty of land out here; he can move to where he is not bothering anyone and be as loud as he want.”
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after all the treats he’s made towards Wilson County and some towards the state of Tennessee I see thing going bad, I say this because he has made threats of violence if he’s stopped from what he’s doing, always telling his congregation it’s because of not shutting down during covid or they hate him, hate God, or even it’s a bunch of devil worshiping witches taking over America. He always says just enough to get his people riled up with his favorite saying, “if they come for our first amendment right, we’ll meet them with our second amendment right”. So, if he’s honest with his threats this will only get more interesting moving forward.
Greg Locke has gone off the deep end. I pray he repents and gets his life right with the LORD. If anything, he MUST step down from ministry because of his marital “affairs” divorce which was not biblical. He is not setting a Christ like example to his parishioners nor to his neighbors. Being loud and obnoxious is not going to win people to Christ.