But the fact remains that generations of youth were energized by what they experienced as a new vision of what it means to be a Christian, that the mainline Protestant churches
formed ecumenical organizations to work together to implement the new vision, and that, finally, in the depression, many of their practical proposals for social reform were implemented.
On the road of the Church's missionary obedience, the Holy Spirit will reveal the
form of
ecumenical organization which is most in harmony with the reality of the Church as a world community which seeks to be loyal to its mission and unity.43