A shooter or shooters opened fire on a Tennessee pastor’s house late Tuesday night, firing dozens of bullets into the residence while one of the pastor’s children was home, according to police.
The Wilson County Sheriff’s Office tells PEOPLE it is investigating the Tuesday night shooting and that “approximately 30-40” shell casings were recovered at the home of pastor Greg Locke in Mt. Juliet, Tenn.
Officers responded to the home around 10:30 p.m. local time, Cpt. Scott Moore of the Wilson County Sheriff’s Office says.
Thankfully, the child that was inside the home was not hurt.
But according to Pastor Locke, a bullet actually “cut through the headboard of our youngest daughter’s bed and lodged in her pillow”…
What would have happened if his youngest daughter had been laying on that pillow at that moment?
Or what would have happened if Locke’s vehicle had pulled up one minute earlier?
Just like we witnessed with Donald Trump a couple of months ago, a great tragedy was avoided only by the narrowest of margins.
But from now on, Pastor Locke and his family are going to have to do things very differently, because the threat of violence is not going to go away.
It is likely that someone decided to target Pastor Locke because of something that he said or did. In particular, the book burnings that his church has conducted have gotten quite a bit of publicity…
For years, his church has worshiped underneath an enclosed tent. Neighbors have expressed concerns over excessive noise, large events, and book burnings.
“Book burnings is the minimal amount of what we burn it was Ouija boards, it was charms, statues, and all types of things,” said Locke.
Could that very disturbing incident be related to the shooting that just occurred?
Hopefully authorities will be able to solve this mystery soon.
But even if the police catch whoever shot up Pastor Locke’s home, it is imperative for all of us to understand one thing.
This was not an isolated incident.
Let me say that again.
This was not an isolated incident.
Anti-Christian violence in this country has been rising at an exponential rate.
Anti-Christian hatred is accelerating in the United States, according to a Christian nonprofit that has tracked violence against U.S. churches since 2018.
The Washington, D.C.-based Family Research Council (FRC) released its annual Hostility Against Churches report last week, finding there were 436 hostile incidents against churches in 2023. This is more than double the number tracked in 2022 and more than eight times as many as the group found in 2018.
So what is our country going to look like if violence against churches continues to rise at an exponential rate?
From this point forward, all churches are going to have to take security very, very seriously.
This will particularly be true if Donald Trump wins the election in November.
Many on the left consider “evangelical Christians” to be their number one enemy, and if Trump wins some will choose to direct the rage that they are feeling at “Trump’s strongest supporters”.
It doesn’t matter if your church strongly supports Trump or not. If Trump wins, your church will still be a target.
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