Hendricks uses two food metaphors to describe the difference between real interfaith worship unity and the performative version.
Smorgasbord (salad bar): each tradition maintains its own separate dishes. You get to sample from each. Nothing actually mingles. The Baptist prays Baptist prayers, the Buddhist chants Buddhist chants, the Unificationist sings Unificationist songs. Polite, educational, and ultimately reinforcing of separation.
Meltdown (tuna melt): the ingredients genuinely combine into something neither was alone. The resulting product is new — identifiably from both origins but not reducible to either. The result is something you couldn’t have without the mixing.
True worship fusion is meltdown. It produces new musical forms, new liturgical patterns, new languages for encounter with God. The elements come from different traditions, but the product is its own thing — not trademarked by any of the source communities.
This is a higher standard than most interfaith worship initiatives attempt. Most operate at the smorgasbord level: multicultural service, multiple traditions represented, everyone takes their turn. Nice. But it doesn’t produce unity; it produces a polite display of diversity.
Moon’s vision was meltdown. One human family in worship before God — not a coalition of separate groups agreeing to share the stage.