Hijacking the Resurrection: Pastor Locke Slams Pot-Promoting Pulpit

There was a time when the resurrection of Jesus Christ was held as sacred. Now it’s being misappropriated by stage-hungry pastors trying to grow their audience—all for vain glory. 

This week, Pastor Greg Locke called it what it is: blasphemy.

In a blistering video posted to Facebook, Locke responded to a now-viral Resurrection Sunday promotion by Action Church in Canton, Georgia. In it, Pastor Gary Lamb joked that this year’s service—falling on 4/20, the drug culture’s unofficial holiday celebrating marijuana use—would feature hot breakfast, full bellies, and “the munchies.” The term “the munchies” is slang for the intense appetite surge caused by getting high on marijuana and similar drugs.

Locke’s response? Righteous fire.

“I’ve seen a lot of crazy stuff in my life,” he said, “but early this morning when that came across my telephone… it was all I could do not to rent my clothes and cry out in anguish.”

What was being mocked, Locke explained, wasn’t just church decorum or branding taste—it was the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.

“This man and this church has taken the most supernaturally prophetic and special moment in the history of the church… and turned the resurrection of our Savior… into a Weed smoking marathon to fill butts in his seat.”

Locke then issued a public call to repentance.

“Dear sir, I don’t know you personally. I publicly call you to repentance before Resurrection Sunday.”

And not just to Lamb. He rebuked the entire leadership structure around him.

“Why your elders and your leadership didn’t stop you is beyond me. This is obscene. This is not edgy evangelism. This is blasphemous irreverence.”

Locke didn’t stop there. He turned the camera squarely toward the lukewarm American church that makes this sort of stunt not just possible, but platformed.

“I’m so sick of American Christianity I could spit six ways from Sunday… The judgment of God shall be swift for the lukewarm church in America that accepts such wicked, wicked nonsense.”

And then came the final seal. A statement of conviction, accountability, and holy fear:

“I, Gregory Duane Locke, on this day, Palm Sunday, 2025, co-sign what I just said, and I will not apologize and back down because that is wicked. And I believe we serve a holy God.”

This isn’t just about one irreverent pastor. It’s about a Church culture that thinks Jesus is a marketing tool and Sunday morning is a stage for stand-up. Pastor Gary Lamb didn’t merely mock the resurrection—he hijacked it for personal gain. He packaged the holiest moment in history in the smoke of marijuana clichés and crude jokes. God’s not laughing.

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“Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.”
(Ephesians 5:4)

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Watch Pastor Locke’s rebuke video here: