“I’ve had a board set up in this church for years,” said Locke, indicating that a board member was standing in the congregation and clapping. He also said that he has a full-time lawyer and an outside CPA who does an audit who is not a church member.
Locke referred to an almost two-hour meeting “the other night” with the Greenwells and seemed to indicate that the meeting did not prepare him for actions they took later.
He criticized the Greenwells for writing their book, saying he “knew nothing” about that. “You’re on a payroll of a church, writing a book about a church. That’s deceptive,” he said. “If you can fall for that and leave this church over that, you don’t deserve what God’s doing in this house.”
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Locke said that, during the meeting, he and his wife offered to show Justin and Kasey the church’s books. An article published on The Roys Report states that Kasey told TRR that when “she or other staff asked to look at the books for more transparency, they were told it’s none of their business.” Locke, however, contradicted the article and said that when the Lockes offered to show them the books, the couple said, “That’s not necessary.”
Locke mentioned that one of the “gripes” is “she” [Kasey] wasn’t invited to a nail appt.” He referred to a place in TRR’s article where Kasey gave examples of favoritism and said Locke’s wife excluded her from a women’s staff retreat and also a nail appointment that the rest of the women on staff were invited to.
“You weren’t invited to a nail appointment?” Locke said. “We’ve spent tens of thousands of dollars for your kids’ private Christian school bill. Do your own nails.”
Locke did not address the Greenwells’ claims about spiritual abuse or the “culture of hierarchy and emotional manipulation.” He did say, “Everything that was mentioned in that letter was from a previous dynasty in the tent era, and I’ve already repented for all of that stuff. I don’t have to double repent. If God got over it, why can’t people get over it?”
The “tent era” refers to when GVBC was meeting under a revival-style tent before the church moved to a warehouse in Lebanon. The pastor stated he had already repented “for the way that we treated people in the tent days. I already repented for being a lousy pastor in the tent days.”
Locke addressed allegations that he has used church funds for his personal house, purchased after the drive-by shooting. Some have accused the pastor of using the church’s building fund money for his house, preventing GVBC from being able to purchase a property from Love’s Way Church. Locke called these claims “slanderous” in 2024.
In his comments this week, the pastor said that the church’s building fund is in the Love’s Way Church bank account because “they kept our escrow money…what kind of church keeps another church’s money because they’re not able to raise the money?”
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