Originally Posted by
Phoenix
i have a theory, it could be wrong but...
those sects, after being at each others' throats through much of their history, have, in the last 100 years or so, reached a sort of uneasy truce where they agree not to claim their own sect is more correct than the others, or that another sect is less correct than others. they realize they will never be united, and they still compete for members, but they don't overtly tell people "our church is closer to jesus' original church than the one down the street" etc. the most they might do in salesmanship is to mention that they have a full-time youth pastor or a full-service daycare, or, like calvary chapels, a full-service coffee/cappuccino bar on the premises, as "little" incentives to join them instead of the one down the street that doesn't have such amenities.