***Districts begin to enforce Bernard Doctrine ***

[DAII]

The first Bernard blurb I got from the STX site.

The second letter, from my understanding, was originally digitized and made web available by Pastor Doug White, Texas and owner of the former JP ... now the APF.

Thanks Dougy for your tireless efforts to inform the constituency!

Originally Posted by Charnock

DAII, where did you get those letters?

[DAII]

Originally Posted by freeatlast

Here's a letter that is supposed to be being received in an un named district.

The letter which I painstakingly transcribed ... is reportedly from east of the Mississippi.

My money is on Maryland?

Sounds like it would come from Wright ... but just an "educated" guess.

[DAII]

Here's the deal-pickle ... the Bernard Doctrine amounts to all bark, no bite.

Posturing with parsing words but no BOOM-BOOM POW paddle.

Although troubling and potentially threatening.

If you want to stay ... no one is going to force you out.

The Detroit crowd knows this ... and I think guys like Tenney and Johnson have been able to exemplify this to the "emergents" in the movement.

The guys that stay because of family and networking reasons ... don't care if they are not "used" and prefer to stay under the radar ... although receiving such a letter
makes them squirm and swallow hard.

Unless, some wayward DS and board gets overly aggressive ... this is MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING and more of the status quo.

It amounts to a gun-less English bobby firmly stating: "Stop! Or I will say 'Stop' again."

[NotforSale]

Originally Posted by ManOfWord

This is so sad...so really sad. This is a much more far right "swing" with the bat than the AS ever was! My question is how much further "right" do they think they need to swing? Obviously, not much room for tolerance here. Also, the only way they can really get someone to leave is to bring charges. That is not an easy process and there are NO winners when that happens.

This is a shot across the bow and flexing of the "holiness" muscle that I predict will backfire like a Three Stooges exploding cigar. Someone needs to photoshop a pic of DB to depict that!

I fully understand that the Supt. needs to lead in the direction he thinks the ship should go.......but I can't state it enough times how glad I'm not a part of this Org any longer. SOMEDAY they may even try to reach the lost as zealously as clinging to an "Apostolic Distinctive!" But I'm not holding my breath!

Amen

[Justin]

Originally Posted by freeatlast

Here's a letter that is supposed to be being received in an un named district.

Originally Posted by DAII

The letter which I painstakingly transcribed ... is reportedly from east of the Mississippi.

My money is on Maryland?

Sounds like it would come from Wright ... but just an "educated" guess.

Possibly, looking at the size of the font in the letter, and the size of the censor bar, one could amass that this is from Maryland.

[U376977]

Originally Posted by DAII

Here's the deal-pickle ... the Bernard Doctrine amounts to all bark, no bite.

Posturing with parsing words but no BOOM-BOOM POW paddle.

Although troubling and potentially threatening.

If you want to stay ... no one is going to force you out.
The Detroit crowd knows this ... and I think guys like Tenney and Johnson have been able to exemplify this to the "emergents" in the movement.

The guys that stay because of family and networking reasons ... don't care if they are not "used" and prefer to stay under the radar ... although receiving such a letter
makes them squirm and swallow hard.

Unless, some wayward DS and board gets overly aggressive ... this is MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING and more of the status quo.

It amounts to a gun-less English bobby firmly stating: "Stop! Or I will say 'Stop' again."

.....however, though we won't force you out you will feel the ever shrinking noose of legalism around your neck.

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by DAII

Here's the deal-pickle ...

Aw...I'm so disappointed. I thought my husband was the one who made that up. (Here's the deal, Pickle.)

[Michael The Disciple]

If they are not going to attack over beards I see this as a shift to the left.

[DAII]

Nah! My wife says that to me every time she is going to lay down the law!

Originally Posted by MissBrattified

Aw...I'm so disappointed. I thought my husband was the one who made that up. (Here's the deal, Pickle.)

[MissBrattified]

Originally Posted by DAII

Nah! My wife says that to me every time she is going to lay down the law!

Haha! That's great.