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Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship: Dallas: May 18, 2008.

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Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship has a homey sound to it, which is fitting for a church that began in 1976 with ten people meeting for Bible study in the home of Tony and Lois Evans. Today, after three decades of nonstop growth, it is one of Dallas's largest and most vibrant churches, with almost eight thousand members. Pastor Evans, who spearheads an extensive radio and television ministry, is now one of the nation's best-known and most influential evangelical leaders.

OCBF's 3,284-seat worship center was almost filled on the morning I attended. The service was ebullient, featuring a forty-voice choir and a praise band that included guitars, a keyboard, percussion, saxophones, a trumpet, and a trombone. I especially enjoyed a rollicking arrangement of the hymn "The Rock That Is Higher Than I, "with so many repetitions of "higher than I" that I dared hope the young people in the assembly might deduce that the lyricist knew his grammar and had not intended to say "higher than me" or, even worse, "than myself."

For those who fear, after hearing excerpts from sermons by the Reverend...

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