Pastor Greg Locke was emotional on Sunday morning while he shared details of the drive-by shooting that riddled his home with bullets on Tuesday night (Sept. 3).
Locke’s remarks came during a worship service at Global Vision Bible Church in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, on Sunday.
“It’s been a wild week for sure,” Locke said as he gave the opening announcements. “I’ve pretty much ignored all of the requests for interviews. I’ve not done any of those.”
“[Media outlets] have kind of done their own stories, and I think maybe early in the week, I said that I would at least answer a few questions, but I’m not answerable to them,” he continued. “I’m answerable to [God].”
“But I’m accountable to you as a church family,” Locke said, reassuring the congregation that his family is “okay.”
“Praise be to God for that,” he said, “so that’s a blessing.”
The pastor explained that he wasn’t going speculate about the assailant’s “motivation” or who might have “targeted” him. “That doesn’t make any difference. What does matter is God protects his children in supernatural ways,” Locke said. “He certainly does that. We could have been having a very, very, very different conversation this morning, if any conversation at all, for that matter.”
Greg Locke Recalls the Events of the Shooting
Recalling the events of the night of the shooting, Locke said that he and his family were in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. While they were planning to come home on Wednesday, Locke said that his wife, Tai, felt like they needed to drive home on Tuesday night.
Locke and his wife drove separate vehicles, due to the size of their family.
Approximately an hour from their home in Mt. Juliet, Locke informed his wife that he need to stop to use the restroom. While Tai did not need to stop, she told Locke that she felt “like the Lord wants me to get over in the slow lane and just go a little slower.”
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