"On June 16 of this year the Dakota Conference held their Constituency meeting at the Dakota Adventist Academy.
There were two significant outcomes of that meeting.
1-The Dakota Conference recommended changes to their Constitution Bylaws (Article II, Purpose) which removed a clause that they would pursue the mission of the Church “within the doctrinal guidelines adopted and approved by the General Conference in its quinquennial session”(s).
They also struck a reference to the working policies and procedures of the North American Division (which arise from the General Conference Model Constitution).
2-In lieu of the General Conference doctrinal guidelines, the Dakota Conference retained language in Article II that aligns them with the Mid-America Union and the North American Division. They also added language about the 28 Fundamental Beliefs.
*Dakota President, Neil Biloff, recently wrote an article in the Dakota Messenger titled “Kingly Power.” In this article he defends the changes to the Dakota Conference Constitution.
This defense is obviously in response to flack that the Dakota Conference has received in the last 60-days.
*Biloff acknowledges in the article that the Dakota Conference has been accused of exercising “kingly power” in their efforts to change their Conference Constitution bylaws.
He suggests—in his article—that it is the GC who is in danger of wielding “kingly power.”
*The former zeal for sharing Bible truths, of working together in close community, of a world-encompassing vision of a great task to be done in preparation for Christ’s Return, is diminishing in North America.
*Notice how the Dakota Conference preserved their ties to the Mid-America Union and the North American Division in Article II, while severing their connection to doctrinal guidelines of the General Conference (world church)?
That is intentional.
The Mid-America Union Executive Committee voted on March 8, 2012 to support the ordination of women in their Union territory.
It should be obvious by now that Mr. Biloff has an agenda.
Q: What is behind these demands for organizational diversity?
A: The root cause is a desire for doctrinal diversity."
Fulcrum7
For this reason I left you in Crete,
that you should set in order the things that are lacking,
and appoint elders in every city as I commanded you—if a man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of dissipation or insubordination.
For a bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, but hospitable, a lover of what is good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled, holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and convict those who contradict.
Titus 1:9-9
1-The Dakota Conference recommended changes to their Constitution Bylaws (Article II, Purpose) which removed a clause that they would pursue the mission of the Church “within the doctrinal guidelines adopted and approved by the General Conference in its quinquennial session”(s).
They also struck a reference to the working policies and procedures of the North American Division (which arise from the General Conference Model Constitution).
2-In lieu of the General Conference doctrinal guidelines, the Dakota Conference retained language in Article II that aligns them with the Mid-America Union and the North American Division. They also added language about the 28 Fundamental Beliefs.
*Dakota President, Neil Biloff, recently wrote an article in the Dakota Messenger titled “Kingly Power.” In this article he defends the changes to the Dakota Conference Constitution.
This defense is obviously in response to flack that the Dakota Conference has received in the last 60-days.
*Biloff acknowledges in the article that the Dakota Conference has been accused of exercising “kingly power” in their efforts to change their Conference Constitution bylaws.
He suggests—in his article—that it is the GC who is in danger of wielding “kingly power.”
*The former zeal for sharing Bible truths, of working together in close community, of a world-encompassing vision of a great task to be done in preparation for Christ’s Return, is diminishing in North America.
*Notice how the Dakota Conference preserved their ties to the Mid-America Union and the North American Division in Article II, while severing their connection to doctrinal guidelines of the General Conference (world church)?
That is intentional.
The Mid-America Union Executive Committee voted on March 8, 2012 to support the ordination of women in their Union territory.
It should be obvious by now that Mr. Biloff has an agenda.
Q: What is behind these demands for organizational diversity?
A: The root cause is a desire for doctrinal diversity."
Fulcrum7
For this reason I left you in Crete,
that you should set in order the things that are lacking,
and appoint elders in every city as I commanded you—if a man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of dissipation or insubordination.
For a bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, but hospitable, a lover of what is good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled, holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and convict those who contradict.
Titus 1:9-9