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Ruqaiyah Najjar's avatar

This is wild. A church that started with people literally mortgaging their homes to build it turned into a family-run corporation overnight? And they barely told anyone it was happening. Yikes.

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Christian Bruce Clark PhD's avatar

Being multimillionaires was seemingly not good enough for Ed Young and his relatives so they apparently desired to make themselves worth billions. Castro in Cuba and Chavez in Venezuela held fraudulent elections and overturned constitutional bylaws. Godly Filipinos stopped supporting and ran off Ferdinand Marcos when he tried same. There are organizations like Star of Hope, 90.5 FM Christian Radio and many Godly churches, which appear to be worthy of your hard-earned dollars and you can get behind the JeremiahCounsel.org. This is of course if you desire an outcome like what happened in the Philippines rather than in Cuba and Venezuela.

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Glenda Stewart's avatar

The sadness is felt throughout the church. How could a true minister keep his head up. I stay because I love my Bible study class. It’s hard to listen to what appears to be a fraud in the pulpit. Is this even a Baptist church? How can a divorced person be a minister? Is that biblical?

Many people have left to listen to other ministers and come back to the Bible study class. The sadness is overwhelming and they love the friends they have had for so many years. I only hope the courts will see that this church should be operated as they envisioned many years ago.

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Christian Bruce Clark PhD's avatar

Search Houston Chronicle and Houston Post. Ed Young paid neither his personal income nor his personal property taxes, “wrote” books that were “works of plagiarism,” employed cop impersonator and a pedophile hanging out at public K-12 schools inviting kids to pizza parties at Second. Plus, Ed Young in essence declared Notorious Enron CEO Ken Lay 100% innocent in front of TV cameras. These are events that were in newspapers and there are MANY more Ed Young scandals that would require writing a book to delineate. Ed Young is no Mother Teresa but there are those who believe he is a different kind of mother and who feel there are better options than longtime nepotism favored Ben. 😇

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Terry Nichols's avatar

When I spoke with Chris Hopf apparently they justify the fact that Ben has been divorced as acceptable because his wife abandoned him. This is not what my Bible says.

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