it is worth comparing the emerging church movement with the Reformation, which was, after all, another movement that claimed it wanted to reform the church. What drove the Reformation was the conviction among all its leaders that the Roman Catholic Church had departed from scripture and had introduced theology and practices that were inimical to genuine Christian faith. In other words, they wanted things to change not because they perceived that new developments had taken place in the culture so that the church was called to adapt its approach to the new cultural profile, but because they perceived that new theology and practices had developed in the church contravened Scripture, and therefore that things needed to be reformed by the Word of God.