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Investigation Called Against Tennessee Pastor for Booting Democrats from Church
Israel 365 News ^ | 5/31/22 | David Sidman

Posted on 06/01/2022 2:18:56 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal

A pastor from Tennessee who said Democrats couldn’t be Christians because of the party’s pro-choice stance noted that he gave up his tax-exempt status.

Pastor Greg Locke of Mt. Juliet’s Global Vision Bible Church, close to Nashville, told his congregants he considered Democrats to be “baby butchers.”

In a sermon earlier this month, Locke said: “You cannot be a Christian and vote Democrat in this nation. I don’t care how mad that makes you. You can get as pissed off as you want to. You cannot be a Christian and vote Democrat in this nation. They are God-denying demons that butcher babies and hate this nation.”

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On a Facebook post on Sunday, Locke said that he renounced his tax-exempt status and stood his ground regarding his stance on Democrats.

He added: “Guess what I did this week. I got an attorney, and I dissolved our stinking 501c3 in this church because the Government ain’t gonna tell me what I can and what I can’t say. So, IRS, we don’t need your stupid tax-exempt status. You can put it in a bag and burn it in your front yard for all we care. I renounced 501c3 communism in this church.”

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TOPICS: Current Events; General Discusssion; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: 501c3; abortion; constitution; democrats; greglocke; homosexualagenda; locke; mountjuliet; nashville; tennessee
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To: rhinohunter

No one is forcing you to STAY Catholic; are they?


101 posted on 06/01/2022 6:26:55 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: skeeter
I agree with the pastor, its impossible to be an unrepentant sinner and still be a Christian.

I thought it is unbelief that gets us kicked out of heaven?

102 posted on 06/01/2022 6:28:09 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Magnum44

What standard do we use to rank sin?

How does GOD do it?


103 posted on 06/01/2022 6:29:27 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Terry L Smith
...since this america, folks been thinking they are kewl, ...

WTHR Indianapolis evening news tonight was just all atwitter over the upcoming 'Gay PRIDE' events soon to be occurring in our city.

104 posted on 06/01/2022 6:32:05 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: DannyTN
I think this preacher is divisive.

Good for him!

How many bad apples does it take to spoil the whole barrel?

105 posted on 06/01/2022 6:33:32 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Perhaps It makes me a theological troglodyte and snake handling hillbilly but I simply do not believe one can be a knowing, unrepentant sinner and see the kingdom of God.

Frankly I did not know this was a contentious point of view among Christians.


106 posted on 06/01/2022 6:34:25 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: DannyTN
I think this preacher is divisive.

Well, he COULD wait until the tares are tossed into the fire, but how many wheat will have been trampled on before then?

107 posted on 06/01/2022 6:34:33 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: crusty old prospector; DannyTN
When do you believe an individual gains a soul? One week, two months, nine months?



Genesis 25:23-24
The Lord said to her, "Two nations are in your womb; And two peoples will be separated from your body;
And one people shall be stronger than the other; And the older shall serve the younger."
 

Psalm 139:13
For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother's womb.
 

Jeremiah 1:5
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you..."
 
 

108 posted on 06/01/2022 6:41:13 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: skeeter

Well golly. How embarrassing that so many disagreements arise. If only the Holy Spirit had come in an unmistakable and preeminent way to a known group of people under recognized leadership, instead of all and sundry who claim his inspiration. I mean, how are we to know whom to believe?


109 posted on 06/01/2022 6:43:58 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Americans United For Separation

Kinda ironic, isn’t it?


110 posted on 06/01/2022 6:44:00 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is i)
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To: Romulus

I mean, I know you’re gonna say 1 Tim 3:15, but that’s just crazy talk. Surely everyone ought to decide these things for himself, right?


111 posted on 06/01/2022 6:50:15 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

and ravenous ones at that!

Matthew 7:15

Acts 20:28-31


112 posted on 06/01/2022 6:51:09 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: DannyTN

Your concern ver the welfare of the others folks is well placed.

One must be careful in ‘getting rid’ of certain bad apples lest the ripening ones left behind get damaged in the process.


113 posted on 06/01/2022 6:53:08 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: spacejunkie2001
“so that his spirit may be saved.”

Needs repeating...


Shouting, even!!

“so that his spirit may be saved.”


114 posted on 06/01/2022 6:55:18 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: skr
Where’s that church’s freedom of religion if they can now be taxed?

Whose image was on the coin?

Matthew 22:15-22

115 posted on 06/01/2022 6:57:27 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: DannyTN

AMEN! Brother!

Lord; have mercy on me.


116 posted on 06/01/2022 6:58:33 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: TalBlack

I did not KNOW this!

But; here it is...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=The+literal+Spark+that+flashes+at+the+moment+the+sperm+fertilizes+the+egg&ia=web


117 posted on 06/01/2022 7:00:33 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: gitmo

Legalese word “art” is what it looks like.


118 posted on 06/01/2022 7:01:49 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: Leaning Right

I’ll just betcha that 63,000,000+ silenced voices whispering in GOD’s ear agree with you.


119 posted on 06/01/2022 7:02:07 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: fuzzylogic

Greg Dixon

Indianapolis


120 posted on 06/01/2022 7:03:48 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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