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Second Baptist Church was founded in 1927 when 121 people met at the old Taylor School in downtown Houston. [1] A year later, it acquired its first permanent facility when it moved to the former St. Paul's Methodist Church on Milam and McGowen streets in downtown. [2]
The church was founded in 1903 as Tuam Avenue Baptist Church. It moved to its current location on South Main Street in 1930 and was renamed South Main Baptist Church. Between 1934 and 1939, the church hosted the University of Houston campus before the university moved to its current location on Cullen Blvd.
Throughout the 20th century, controversy had flared up sporadically among Southern Baptists over the nature of biblical authority and how to interpret the Bible. Until 1925 the SBC did not have a specific, formal confession of faith; whenever an issue arose it had looked to two earlier and more general baptistic confessions of faith produced in the United States: the Philadelphia Confession of ...
The church received $15 million after selling the former building to New Light Christian Center Church. [17] On March 31, 2010, the Houston City Council voted 13–2 to sell the property to Lakewood for $7.5 million. [18] In November 2018, CBS News listed Lakewood Church as the largest megachurch in the United States with about 43,500 weekly ...
In 2023, Southern Baptist Convention leadership disfellowshipped Calvary Baptist Church in Jackson. Calvary Baptist Church Pastor Linda Smith, at the time, said her church didn't expect to appeal.
On Monday, Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, doubled down on his criticism of Trump’s conviction in an address to a crowd of 750-plus mostly Southern ...
Bryant Wright - Southern Baptist Convention President 2010–2012; Homer Edwin Young - President of the Southern Baptist Convention (1992–1994), serves as Head Pastor of Second Baptist Church Houston, is an author, and is the creator of the broadcast ministry, the Winning Walk
Homer Edwin Young (born August 11, 1936), often called simply Ed Young, is the former senior pastor of the megachurch Second Baptist Church of Houston, Texas. [1] He is father to sons Ed Young, pastor of Fellowship Church in Grapevine, Texas; [2] Ben Young, at Second Baptist Houston; [3] and Cliff Young, director of Second Films and leader of the Christian folk/pop group Caedmon's Call.