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After a few years of tremendous momentum, the organization began to have internal squabbles.

Barber was elected to the office of the president year after year without any challenge whatsoever.

Finally, someone stood up in a meeting and nominated another pastor to that office.

In a ruse, fifteen minutes before his term expired, Barber resigned.

Again, his strategy worked.

He was reelected by a landslide vote.

But that incident proved to be a foreshadow of things to come.

In " A View of the Norris Phenomenon ", the author points to the common problem of egocentricity among fundamentalist leaders as the cause of I. B. F. I.

's decline.

In less than seven years, Barber had badgered Jack Warren, editor of The Searchlight, and Young Houston, director of missions, into resigning.