Well this all reminds me of something I once heard at coffee hour...
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I used to think that maybe merging them into one, big, North American Church would be a good idea, but I agree I think that things probably need to happen more organically rather than all at once.
Remember that there are still people coming to America from other lands, and when they get here they usually look for an Orthodox Church that matches the ethnic background where they came from.
Besides as was stated earlier, better to stay in communion with each other than to have a schism over the letter of the law. It\'s been said that at the grass roots level all of Orthodoxy is united.
There once was a non-Orthodox American and an Orthodox (OCA, GOA, Carpatho Rus, ROCOR, Antiocean, whichever) man who were stranded on a desert island together.
The Orthodox man needed a Church, and so he when to work on it and created one that was beautiful enormous and elaborate. The non-Orthodox man was impressed and said "wow, that's really amazing".
Then the Orthodox man started making another Church, larger and more beautiful and elaborate than the Church that he built before! Confused, the non-Orthodox man asked him, "But you already built a Church, what is this one for?" to which the Orthodox man replied, "This is the Church that I go to, and that is the Church that I don't go to,"
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