Of course, the major story coming out of the Pew survey is the fluidity of religious affiliation in the U.S.   This is true within Protestantism and it’s something we can see not only with the stats but in the upsurge in church marketing and the minimizing of denominational ties.
So what I’m wondering is – is Protestant denominationalism essentially dead? There are those who think not, who argue vociferously for the integrity of a Calvinist or Arminian spin on Christianity, but my perception is that this is only a minority – a tiny minority. That the motivations for choosing a church for those within Protestantism (and this can apply in Catholicism as well, but what I’m interested is denominationalism within Protestantism) seem to fall, generally, to the following choices:
* large v. small community
*liturgical v. non-liturgical
*programming, especially for children and youth.
And that the classic questions that have divided Protestants from each other over the past five centuries are basically non-issues for most people?
What do you think?