The South/religion: A Born -Again Faith

"I have always believed in the Bible," says John Wright, 52, president of Chattanooga's 20-branch American National Bank. "I have always believed that Jesus was the Son of God." For a dozen years, in fact, Wright has been an elder of Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church. But not until last year did he fully accept Jesus as a "personal Saviour." His decision came at a special series of "renewal" services at his church, where he heard a St. Louis minister preach on the famous text from the Gospel of St. John, in which Jesus tells...

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