On the Christianity Today website in the middle of 2009 was a story that claimed that in 1990 there were about 200,000 people in the United States who classified themselves as "nondenominational." By 2009 that number exceeded 8 million. Most people today think that denominationalism is on the decline. Some things about that decline may be good; other aspects may not be. The question is this: if the denominational structures that have carried Protestant Christianity since the sixteenth century are