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Five years ago, a young Army veteran named Michael Delamarian, a graduate of South Carolina's Bible-teaching Bob Jones University, took over the rundown, 90-member Calvary Bible Church-a storefront operation on Chicago's Near North Side. It was an area crowded with similar churches, and within a year Delamarian decided that "it was more in keeping with the Lord's work" to move. He picked suburban Mount Prospect, 14 miles away, as his new place to serve...
...Delamarian is pastor of the Mount Prospect Bible Church, which owns a $150,000 brick-and-stone building for services, a gymnasium, and five acres of land. Delamarian's Sunday services draw 200 or more. But what the people hear in his new church is the same strident Bible faith that he taught in the Chicago storefront. "I haven't changed the service," he says. "It's the same out here as in the city...
Preaching the Bible. Michael Delamarian is not the only Biblical preacher to find newer and bigger congregations in the suburbs. Across the U.S., in working-class townships and bedroom communities that surround the great industrial cities, fundamentalist religion-in tiny, independent churches that feature emotion-laden sermons and preach a faith based upon an unerring Bible-is beginning to threaten the traditional suburban hegemony of the mainstream Protestant denominations...
...Living God. Few of them have fulltime ministers. Church services emphasize oldtime hymns and sermons that pound home a basic Gospel message of Christ's saving grace. There is little or no liturgy. "We feel that all this rising and reading confuses the issue,'' says Pastor Delamarian. "Our message is simple: Have you been saved...
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