Dr. Murray, I don’t know of your experiences, but coming from 20+ years in non-denominationalism, I’ve recently seen many of its warts. It’s to the degree that I’ve been seeing (on paper, at least) the confessional Reformed branches to be as close to fully biblical Christianity as we’re ever going to see in this world. Carl Trueman’s recent book delves more deeply into some of the things that Jason Helopoulos enumerates in his blog post. I suppose it is possible to have healthy non-denominational churches, but they seem much more vulnerable to the mindset of the world, even if I understand that many denominations are equally enamored with pushing off from the historical moorings for the sake of relevance and progress. When I lost a pastor who simply wanted to preach from Scripture and worship according to Scripture, I knew that there was trouble in independent evangelicalism. Of course, seeing the shortcomings of what I see most closely can cause me to be blind to the shortcomings of denominations, but at least in the confessions as a ministerial summary of what Scripture teaches, there is something there to bind a body of believers together. True enough, independent churches may also embrace the ecumenical creeds and historic confessions, but that is not the situation in which I find myself so I cannot adequately comment on such churches.