How should a church be working to reform itself according to Scripture?

Gary Powers explains in this video that when a church begins the process of reformation, they begin to examine different aspects of the church service. They ask questions such as: “Does this align with Scripture?” “Why are we doing this?” Sometimes, the things we do within the church are done merely because of tradition without contemplating whether they are in accord with Scripture.

There are basically two positions that we can take in regards to reformation. One position would put your preferences and desires first and demand that Scripture follow suit. The other position involves humbling yourself and submitting to the will of God found in Scripture.  

1 Thessalonians 2:13 (NKJV) – “For this reason we also thank God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively works in you who believe.”

I think what it looks like when a church reforms, I think You begin to look at everything that you do. You know, and you begin to ask questions as to why are we doing this? And does it align with Scripture? You know, do we have a bunch of programs? Why are we doing the programs?

Does the scripture say that we should do this? Why are we having an altar call? Does the scripture inform us of this? Or does scripture teach us something else? Do these songs that we're singing, do they glorify God?

Do they line up with scripture? Are we preaching as we ought to preach? And we began to examine church life and the church service in light of scripture not in I think you know our church went through that and honestly, I think that I used to look at things and I knew what I wanted. I knew what I liked and I knew it was right and You know, we'll see if we can get scripture to line up with that versus saying God what you say we will do.