Albert Schweitzer said: "What has been passing for Christianity during these nineteen centuries is merely a beginning, full of weaknesses and mistakes, not a full-grown Christianity springing from the spirit of Jesus."
Mark Mason, in In Search of the Loving God says: "Perhaps the biggest single misapprehension holding the Protestant church back in our time, is the notion that it has already gone through all the major reform it needs, in the Reformation, and that all it needs to do now is get around and 'witness' to as many people as possible, and tell them how wonderful it is. Most of the reform the church needs, both Catholic and Protestant, is yet to come, and their witness will be unimpressive until after this real reform takes place."
Mason's web site for In Search of the Loving God includes three complete chapters from the book, as well as various other excerpts, which highlight areas in which Christian belief and practice needs reform. Amongst other things, he says that in order to meet the needs of the educated and discriminating spiritual seekers of our time, Christianity needs to renounce the medieval practice of controling people through guilt and fear, and it needs to return to the real spirit of Jesus' teachings. You can access this web site through the following link:
IN SEARCH OF THE LOVING GOD by Mark Mason