thousand denominations.3 One therefore wonders whether Protestants have been not only fruitful but excessively so: If Charles de Gaulle could complain about the difficulty of governing a country that has 246 varieties of cheese, how much more difficult is it to achieve consensus among thirty-eight thousand Protestant denominations? We need to do more than crunch numbers, however, to assess properly the Reformation’s fruit. Jesus was concerned with truth and good deeds as criteria of authentic discipleship.