Great questions to consider.

Something else to think about: as this energy crisis deepens (google “peak oil”), most American Christians (and I assume also in some spots of Europe) will no longer be able to drive so far to just the right church for them. Because we can drive we can drive tens of miles to where we want to worship, even when we live within one mile from three churches!

How will American Christians be able to cope with the end of easy-driving, and with it, the end of such radical church choice? We’ll HAVE to sit at the same table, or not at all.

God in the coming decades may be forcing this kind of interdenominational ecumenism and (dare I say it) Pentecost on us, whether we want it or not.