Those who have been following Dr. Clark’s posts regarding the Jeremiah Counsel vs Young Group case know that the Jeremiah Counsel’s concerns were ostensibly that a vote at a “business meeting” (with well under 325 of the 94,000+ Second Baptist Houston members) changed the old bylaws to new bylaws taking away members’ voting rights and ushering the way for nepotism favored Ben Young (the son of Homer Edwin Young) to become the next pastor AND have virtually dictatorial, non-transparent, non-accountable (except for a handful of family and handpicked individuals) control of over $1 Billion in assets, which many individuals had made major sacrifices to make happen. To some they would have expected such actions in a third-world nation, but not in the USA, and are concerned that it could encourage public company CEOs to attempt similar privatizations, which if they do will upset the values of your and your compatriots’ hard-earned 401K and/or IRA stock portfolios?
It has seemingly been the Jeremiah Counsel’s position that the “new bylaws” were not adequately presented to members in advance of a “business meeting” and that the election to overturn the old bylaws was fraught with outright deception, non-transparency and fraud. As for the attendees at that business meeting, held around the Memorial Day Weekend in 2023, many (if not most) were paid staff members told to be there and allegedly many (if not most) were asked to vote to overturn the old church bylaws and institute new bylaws without ever seeing the replacement bylaws or realizing that they would remove their own voting rights. If this was the situation, should one be surprised if employees wanting to keep their jobs would vote the way their boss asked, especially if being watched?
As for the Jeremiah Counsel, it was formed by concerned members after their attempts to resolve their matters amicably were presumably thwarted and, with a statute of limitation concern, felt it necessary to file a law suit. The Jeremiah Counsel professedly wanted the case heard in an ordinary civil court, rather than the newly formed (by Greg Abbott) Business Court where all of the judges were appointed by Greg Abbott. The Jeremiah Counsel’s wanting the case in an ordinary civil court seems likely (to the author of this article) due to the close relationship that Ed Young and Greg Abbott have had over the years.
Abbott has spoken at Second Baptist and Young has handled prayer meetings in Austin on behalf of Abbott, etc. Yet, the Young Group was able to get the case into the Greg Abbott Business Court. Thus, many (if not most) are not surprised with some of what the Jeremiah Counsel felt were their key motions (regarding a trial that was scheduled for the end of July) being struck down by Judge Grant Dorfman, with your being able to read more about the Greg Abbott appointed judge’s rulings if you do an online search.
While the Jeremiah Counsel has stated its intent to appeal, Dr. Clark (who was a member of Second Baptist and, in at least one year, gave more than 20% of his gross income to that “church”) long ago left Second Baptist after sources like the Houston Chronicle, Houston Post and others did fantastic jobs of exposing JUST SOME OF THE MANY Homer Edwin Young shenanigans. As for Homer Edwin Young, according to the repository housing his papers “he received the Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi College in 1955 and the Bachelor of Divinity degree from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1962 with honorary degrees by Furman University (1973), the Criswell Center for Biblical Studies (1984), and Southwest Baptist University (1985).” He does NOT have an earned doctorate despite liberally using the title, according to the aforementioned site, unlike Dr. Clark who does have an earned doctorate, as evidenced by his dissertation being available through ProQuest.
Dr. Clark (who recently took a corporate buyout package and qualified for 100% Social Security but who still feels he has much to offer on a few hours per week to full-time basis) has chosen to support religious entities like Operation Blessing, with the Ministry Watch Rating being extremely high regarding trustworthiness. He also supports a local church, which has thus far shown great transparency and accountability and radio stations like KSBJ (89.3 FM) and KJIC (90.5 FM) rather than KHCB (105.7 FM) since KHCB airs Young Group programming.
Besides KHCB, he has also withdrawn his support of other media, as well as entities and individuals, showing their support of the Young Group members at Second Baptist Houston and the Fellowship Church in Grapevine “pastored” by another of Homer Edwin Young’s sons. Regarding JeremiahCounsel.org you can read more about it and how you can support it by going to its website.
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