ps:
if your congregation tries to keep its church,
get a knowledgeable lawyer FIRST before taking any actions or votes or writing any letters even.
and
forget all about Judeo-Christian agape. You will be going up against a very well-lawyered, aggressive money-grubbing and now-very-anti-Christian gang that wants the property, all of it, (and doesn’t give a rat-s ass damn about you, your parishioners, or Christian faith principles).
The much-maligned money-changers are no longer just sitting on the front steps offering acceptable sacrifices for sale to faithful pilgrims ... they’ve infiltrated and taken over the very Temple itself.
Here’s their playbook: http://www.layman.org/pcusa-lawyers-advise-hardline-tactics-in-church-property-disputes/
Great legal work is being done on behalf of local churches. A third edition is in the works but to read up on the issues get “The Guide to Church Property Law, 2nd edition”
http://www.layman.org/discern/property-issues/a-guide-to-church-property-law-2nd-edition/