ABSTRACT
To use the term ‘re-writing the script’ may seem to be rather extreme. Yet something like this is required in faithful response to an hospitable God, if the church is to be the church of God and not another failing bureaucratic remnant from a past age. Of course very many good things happen in the churches as they exist today. Lives of selfless discipleship are led. In many parts of the world the word is truly preached and the sacraments are rightly administered. Nevertheless, the good done by the churches may be outweighed by the bad, and reform is once again required. This cannot be done according to a single blueprint or through the eyes of any one individual. It requires a gradual discernment, which may have different consequences in different areas. Change is necessary. Otherwise the church will die in some areas, and become a caricature of its true self in others.
