Paradise Missionary Baptist Church in Alabama hasn't exactly lived up to its name.

The 16-member church in the town of Butler, the county seat of Choctaw County, split into two factions of eight people each in 2012, according to court documents.

One faction fired the pastor, the Rev. Charles Brookins Taylor.

Taylor and his faction filed a lawsuit challenging his firing.

A lower court upheld the firing, but Taylor appealed all the way to the Alabama Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court released its ruling on Thursday, noting that the lower court had no authority to interfere in the church's ecclesiastical matters, and overturning the firing of Pastor Taylor.

So it appears that Taylor will remain pastor of the church, which likely now will only include his faction of eight, since each faction has been fighting to exclude the other group. Members of Taylor's group include Taylor's wife, Carolyn, the chairman of the trustees, who at a meeting in 2012 made a motion to seek a restraining order against founding church member Lenora Ray, who hosted the first services of the church in her home in 1993.

Lenora was the leader of the opposing faction that voted to fire Taylor, who had been pastor since 2007.

At that same meeting, the other living person who helped found the church, Thelma Taylor, the sister of the pastor, made a motion to remove Lenora from the trustee board and have her replaced with Taylor's other sister, Rose Taylor.

So the pastor's faction, according to court documents, included the pastor's wife and his two sisters.

The church appears to have had no major conflict before 2010, when it voted to become a non-profit corporation and adopted bylaws stating its purpose as "to advance the Kingdom of Jesus Christ."