@SuperLutheran The problem is that while everyone might want change, nobody can agree on what they want instead.
Complaining casts a wide net and gets you a lot of support, but once you start suggesting solutions, you'll find that support erode and your support fracture into deferring groups with their out values and interests.
It takes a lot of resources to "reform and rebuild" anything, and historically consensus is built by the strong imposing THEIR vision on the weak.
@SuperLutheran Having a hands off approach and letting congregations do their thing will certainly work for growth, but how will you maintain consistency when it comes to the particulars of the religion?
There is a reason there are thousands and thousands of Christian denominations which all interpret the Bible differently and promote different values and politics.
@SuperLutheran I agree and I wish you luck. The early Christian church functioned very similarly on a small scale when it was an underground Roman movement after all.
I think you'll just find that if you succeed you'll be a victim of your own success and groups will insert their different values and politics into your movement in order to subvert it to their own ends, and in the end, things will be more or less exactly as they are, and if you try to impose an orthodoxy, your church will split.
The "thousands of denominations" line is often a mistaken recognition of thousands of *groups.* Generally speaking you can broadly categorize the actual lines of denominational thought into less than ten, with various groups gravitating toward one or another. We're not making something new, but restoring what was in this regard.