Why the Protestant Reformation failed?

 

Response to comment [from a Christian]: "...So who is Gods 'church'..."

 

Those who continue in his doctrine.

 

If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained [1 Tim. 4:6].
"“If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things.” Paul has warned Timothy of the apostasy and false teachings that were to come into the church. There will be men who profess to the faith and then come to the place where they deny it. In turn, Timothy is to warn the believers about these things.
“Thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ.” Every believer is a minister, but here Paul has in mind Timothy as a teacher of the Word of God. That is a gift that some men have and some don’t. But all believers are ministers.
“Nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine”—this is how the believer is to grow in the Word of God. We are not to go off on tangents about diet or some other aesthetic program as if it would commend us to God. Instead our diet is to be “nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine.”
“Whereunto thou hast attained.” Some interpreters think that there was a danger in Ephesus in the midst of so much false religion and work of Satan that Timothy would go off into it all, but Paul said that Timothy had attained unto the things he has mentioned and commends him for it..."
McGee, J. Vernon, 1 Ti 4:6

 

Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee [1 Tim. 4:16].
"May I say this kindly, but I must say it: God have mercy on the minister who is not giving out the Word of God! That is a frightful sin. It would be better to be a gangster than to be a man who is supposed to give out the Word of God and fails to do so."
McGee, J. Vernon: Thru the Bible Commentary. electronic ed. Nashville : Thomas Nelson, 1997, c1981, S. 5:450-451

Why the Protestant Reformation failed?