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The First Reformation was a movement that revolved around two pivotal issues:
1. Justification by faith alone.
2. The authority of the Bible (sola Scriptura).
However Protestantism went on to challenge many other dogmas that had emerged in Rome.

The First Reformation thus attempted to revert to the concepts of the Early Church,
guided by the letters of St Paul and the writings of the other early church leaders.
In doing so they failed to realise that those teachings had already strayed,
from the far more radical and meaningful teachings of Jesus.
They reverted to the synod of Nicea but not to Christ.

They failed to realise that the change needed to involve theological revision,
in addition to changes of organisation, doctrine and ritual.

The need is now to take advantage of recent scholarship and to go further,
to go back to the true teachings hidden in the Gospel naratives;
so overturning the tables in our modern temples;
and honestly seeking the pearl of great price.

In this adventure we may abandon much of present Christian ritual and doctrine.
We may reimagine The Gospel from one of personal salvation
to what Jesus called the coming of God's Kingdom.

We may rethink Church Services to be founts of communal service.
We may rethink Holy Communion to be the giving of a free meal for all.
We may also realise that the Bible is just a spiritualised history,
of one aggressive nation amongst many others of equal merit.
We may reimagine the God. that we have made in our image,
into the spiritual reality that Jesus experienced.

Maybe we can even welcome the stranger,
feed the hungry, give justice to the oppressed,
lead the world in undermining its inequalities,
replace hatred with love, and envy with care.