“I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”
You can’t let property hold you back. Let them have their filthy and defiled property. All my mother’s folks were Episcopalian. The dead ones at least aren’t around to see what has happened to their church.
It's best to rent, and have the rent be paid out of the weekly contributions. If the church no longer can hold its people, then it's time to dissolve it, and let the people go to where their spiritual needs are better satisfied