Popular internet preacher Greg Locke declared Monday that he will not step down from the helm of his Tennessee church despite repeated calls from critics to do so.
“[Over] the last six months or so, there’s been a lot of vitriol, a lot of lies, deception, assumptions. The news media has been massively horrendous. It’s been hurtful. It’s been a lot of basketball-sized ulcers, a lot of chewing the fingernails … and a lot of sleepless nights … It’s been a very difficult road, especially the lies and the foolishness and the nonsense and the made-up stuff,” Locke, who leads Global Vision Bible Church in Mount Juliet, began in a viral video message he titled “PASTOR GREG LOCKE IS STEPPING DOWN.”
“… There have been thousands of people that have called for my resignation from the church, that I step down as a pastor, that I burn my ordination certificate, and all of that,” he continued.
Instead of announcing he would step down, however, Locke, who revealed in January that he had taken steps to divorce his mentally unstable wife, Melissa, said the only thing he is stepping down from are the attacks from his critics.
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