## Summary Greg Locke is an American pastor who leads Global Vision Bible Church, a tent-based congregation in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. He is known for a confrontational, media-heavy ministry built on deliverance, prophecy, and spiritual-warfare theology, and for political activism aligned with Christian nationalism. He rose to wider public attention during and after 2020–2022 through viral videos, public "book burnings," and mass deliverance events. ## Substance Locke's ministry sits in the independent charismatic stream rather than any denominational structure. Its recurring themes — casting out demons, naming political and cultural enemies as spiritually possessed, and framing opposition as persecution — place it adjacent to the New Apostolic Reformation networks this wiki tracks, even where Locke does not use NAR office language himself. His public method leans on spectacle and direct-to-camera address on his own channels, which means most claims about his ministry originate with Locke and circulate without independent reporting attached. > [!note] Active claim — not established fact > As of the [[2026-07-14-greg-locke-federal-raid-claim|Feds Raid Greg Locke's Home? Finances Under Investigation]] source, Locke states that 60 federal agents raided his home before dawn and that his church's bank accounts were canceled amid a finances investigation. These claims are **uncorroborated first-person testimony from the person under investigation**. No named agency, court docket, or third-party report has been confirmed in the wiki. Track, do not assert. ## Why it matters in this wiki Locke is a live case study in two of the wiki's standing concerns: the **persecution reframe** (converting an accountability question into a story about attacks on the faithful) and the **single-source-claim** problem (a ministry whose factual record is largely self-published). His entity anchors both threads and gives the [[Spiritual Abuse]] and [[Apostolic Authority]] clusters a contemporary independent-charismatic reference point. ## Related - [[2026-07-14-greg-locke-federal-raid-claim|Feds Raid Greg Locke's Home? Finances Under Investigation]] - [[Apostolic Authority]] - [[Spiritual Abuse]]