How was the Church reformed during the time of the Reformation?

Anthony Mathenia explains in this video that the so-called "church" during the time of the Reformation was far off from what the Bible prescribed. What Martin Luther and the other men accomplished was a reform of the biblical Church. As the Reformers did nearly 500 years ago, we also need to be looking to Scripture to apply truth to our lives. 

The Church continues to need to be reformed, even today. God's Word is applicable to reveal areas of sin and ways we have strayed from Scripture. 

Titus 3:4-5 (NKJV) – “But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit.” 

Because the so-called church during that time was so far off from what the Bible prescribes as true Christianity, What Luther and the other men accomplished was not merely a reform of the Catholic Church in that day but starting a church biblically in the way that it ought to. And we aren't in times as desperate as the early 1500s so we don't need something altogether different as much as we need to get back to looking at the scriptures and applying the truths that God has revealed there. Applying them to our lives as individuals, applying them to our lives as families, and especially applying them to the life of the local church. Looking to see how God prescribes that we lead within the home, how we raise our children, how we love our wives, and how we arrange and order the local church.