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A lawsuit challenging the legitimacy of Second Baptist Church's leadership and new bylaws has divided longtime members, forcing some to choose to stay and fight or find a new spiritual home.

A difficult choice: Stay and fight — or leave

The Rev. Ben Young is urging congregants at Houston's Second Baptist Church to resist temptation, protect themselves from outside pressures and choose forgiveness at a particularly precarious moment for the church.

As a divisive lawsuit over church bylaws heads to trial, many longtime members are facing a difficult decision: stay and fight for their voice in the church's future, or leave the congregation they've called home for years.

Go Deeper

Second Baptist Church, 2424 Milam at McGowen, January 1938

Houston's Second Baptist is a church at legal war with its members. Who will win — and at what cost?

One of the most influential churches in the region is being sued by its members over a change to its bylaws.

Read the full investigative series here.

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