I’ve seen Greg Lockes before, unfortunately a type in East and Middle Tennessee. A fast-talking showy con man who uses his smarts for no good. He was arrested so many times as a teen he ended up in a Christian-run reform school where he got “saved” and then married one of the staff members. He said he committed all those crimes because his father was in prison and he hated his stepfather.
Well, how saved did he get? 21 years and four children later, right after he found his “fame” and “success”, he dumped his wife for her best friend the church secretary, yes, the wife who stuck with him through all the lean times. Yet all those people flock to his tent and put up with him accusing church members of being witches. Go figure.
His make-up-your-own-church tent church is not affiliated with any denomination and has no oversight, financial or otherwise. His poor wife ended up in a women’s shelter, and the profanity-laced texts he sent her show his true colors:
https://pulpitandpen.org/2018/03/03/greg-locke-american-pastor/
Locke showed up onstage at a Reawaken America rally in Arizona where he told the Q followers in the audience “I know y’all been ostracized and separated from yo’ families, but here’s what I know — there will never be activation without isolation. And God is isolating some of you ...” and rants on from there, starting at the 15:27 mark
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_-y-BIAtS0
What gobbledygook. No activition without isolation indeed. There was also what we call a “gasping preacher” at that event. I was shocked at first, as I thought gasping preachers were just a Tennessee thing (kinda like Hardshell Baptists, Pew Walking Methodists and Snake Handling Pentacostals), but I guess if they imported Locke, they could also import the gasping preacher.
The Southern Baptists have been trying to counter the Q stuff:
https://www.brnow.org/opinions/editorial/q-anon-the-rise-of-restless-evil/
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/evangelical-leaders-try-to-take-on-qanon-in-their-community/#x
Some pastors give up and leave:
https://www.businessinsider.com/pastors-quit-after-qanon-radicalize-congregation-2021-3
In case you are curious about the snake handlers:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cwBVcsWYJd8
Pulpit & Pen is yet another hardshell Babtist cessationist voice afflicted with a mighty strong demonic “religious spirit” . Pot, kettle, black.
Although they do call out Beth Moore as the Worst Christian of the Year (LOL, is that Scriptural to do that??!?) and I happen to agree with them that she’s not one whose teaching I’d sit under.
As a reminder, the execrable never-trumper babtist Russell Moore is a bird of a feather with P&P.