During his latest sermon to the congregation at Global Vision Bible Church, Pastor Greg Locke gave a brief update about the incident last week where his home was shot at while one of his children was at home. Thankfully, everyone in the Locke family was safe.
“God protects His children in supernatural ways,” Locke says to the congregation. “We could’ve been having a very, very very different conversation this morning. If any conversation at all for that matter.”
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“We were doing some things actually for the museum in Pigeon Forge,” says Locke. “We were coming back the next day, we were going to stay the night and we decided that we would go ahead and come back.”
Locke says that on their way home, he needed to stop. His wife, Tai, was driving separately, so he knew he needed to call her and tell her he was making a stop. She then told him that while she wasn’t stopping, she felt the Lord asking her to get in the right lane and slow down.
“The Lord tells you to slow down, you better slow down. I don’t care how strange it seems to anybody, and I don’t care how much they honk at you; slow down,” Locke says.
As the family approached their home after the pit stop and slowdown, Locke saw what he thought was glass everywhere. He got out of the car to investigate, and what he found was not glass but something much more lethal.
“It was spent shell casings,” Locke says. “So, at that point I didn’t know what had transpired so quickly, and how severe of a situation it was.”
Locke says he then called the police and reported what he saw. In the past, the Lockes have had dead chickens placed in their driveway, the church pulpit vandalized and other various crimes committed against them.
Locke played a recording of a sound that was picked up near his yard when the incident happened. Rounds upon rounds of bullets being shot off can be heard in the distance.
“Sixty rounds in less than three seconds,” Locke says. “Sixty of them. The detective said he’d never seen that many spent shell casings in a drive by shooting situation like this.”
Locke says he and his family have not been allowed back at their house since the shooting took place. Despite all of the horror, Locke still acknowledges God’s goodness in the storm.
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Continue to lift up the Locke family in prayer during this sensitive time, that God’s protection may continue to be upon them as they do mighty works for the Lord.
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