article_snippet: As a pastor, Barnard inspired Barnard congregants with Barnard charisma and apparent devotion to the teachings of Jesus Christ.
article_snippet: I had never met anybody that I thought loved the word of God as much as Barnard did," Ruth Johnson, a former member of Barnard's River Road Fellowship, told "The Hunt."
article_snippet: Barnard proclaimed Barnard was Christ on Earth. "
article_snippet: Barnard taught that in the Bible, the church was the bride of Christ on Earth and because Christ on Earth was Christ in the flesh, the church was supposed to be married to Christ on Earth," Lindsay Tornambe's said.