Greg Locke Removes Church’s Tax Exempt Status; Calls Steven Furtick, Kenneth Copeland, T.D. Jakes, Perry Stone False Prophets By Jesse T. Jackson for Church Leaders
GNN Note – The more I learn about Greg Locke the more I like him. He is old school, shots from the hip and shots straight. He walks in the Spirit and speaks without fear of repercussions and could careless about the “woke” agenda. Also, his step to move away from the 502c3 status is awesome. It shows he is not doing what he does for the money. Not sure that list of fellas he’s calling out can say the same. Are those men apostates? Well, if you noticed, we stopped publishing Furtick well over a year ago and have never, nor would we ever, publish Copeland, Jakes and we have only published one, maybe two, Perry Stone videos – we will post no more. / END
On May 22, Greg Locke announced that he is voluntarily removing Global Vision Church’s tax exempt status. This came after some of Locke’s critics contacted the IRS, demanding an investigation into political comments the pastor made and claiming the church should lose its 501c3 status.
Locke shared that the church receives multiple hate calls and threats a day, saying, “You ought to see the pictures we have to send to the security team for the people that are going to be here to kill me in front of everybody.”
Now is your chance to support Gospel News Network.
We love helping others and believe that’s one of the reasons we are chosen as Ambassadors of the Kingdom, to serve God’s children. We look to the Greatest Commandment as our Powering force.
The pastor told ChurchLeaders that he received a call this week from an event organizer who was canceling a speaking engagement of his in Kentucky due to protests and death threats.
Addressing his previous political comments, Locke called out news outlets for falsely reporting on his “insurrection” remark, saying, “You know, all of them are saying that I called last week to take up arms against the government. If they heard that, it’s because they’re smoking crack, or apparently they didn’t pay attention.”
