7 faith-inspired movies to watch before the end of summer

By Jeannie Ortega Law, Christian Post Reporter Monday, August 21, 2023

'Come Out In Jesus Name' released March 13

'Come Out in Jesus Name' film poster — "Come Out in Jesus Name" film poster

Last on the list is the controversial documentary “Come Out In Jesus Name” which drew thousands of Americans to theaters across the nation to learn about deliverance ministries.

With several encore showings following its release, the film follows the deliverance ministry work of Pastors Greg Locke and Alexander Pagani, YouTube preacher Isaiah Saldivar, and pastors Mike Signorelli, Vladimir Savchuck and Daniel Adams.

Once a self-described cessationist, Locke now embraces the gifts of the Holy Spirit and encourages Christians to embrace their authority in Jesus to free themselves and others of demonic oppression or possession.

After the film's initial release, moviegoers flooded social media with posts sharing accounts of oppression being released in theaters. Similar accounts were shared following the encore showings.

"Come Out in Jesus Name" was initially released for two days only and soared to No. 5 at the box office to be among the highest-grossing films on its release day. The film received a 97% Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score and delivered its second-highest per-screen average during its encore.

Locke shot to internet fame in 2016 after he posted videos on Facebook criticizing Planned Parenthood and then Target for its policy that allows men who identify as female to enter girls' and women's dressing rooms and bathrooms. He later became outspoken in his support of former President Donald Trump and spoke out against ongoing bans on worship gatherings at churches during the COVID-19 lockdowns, which lasted for more than a year in some states.

The pastor has since changed his focus to battles in the spiritual realm.

"It got to a point where my political involvement was so big that it was a distraction in many ways and respects,” Locke told The Christian Post in a recent interview. “I will still do reawaken conference, I'm still very much politically conservative and all that, but I feel like it wasn't the legacy that I wanted to leave.

“Maybe I could have framed some things differently in those early days. It just seemed like everything controversial that we touched turned to social media gold, and it just kept building and building and building, and so I became known as this forceful evangelistic person but maybe on the wrong highway, if that makes sense.”

The pastor testified to how God has used him and he doesn't want to minimize or disregard each phase of the process.

“But I think the whole time, God was building me for that. He knew about the attacks that I'm in now. ... I had to be kind of brazen. I had to be very bold and brash to handle this, Locke told CP.

"It's easy to fight Democrats; I'm fighting demons now.”

For more information about “Come Out in Jesus Name,” click here, the film is available to stream on multiple platforms.