http://www.fastcompany.com/online/05/changetips.html

In industry, they're a positive force, supposedly. Chris Turner gives nine tips for change agents. Can you find any parallels, positive or negative, in spiritual change agents?

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Okay, I took the first sentence from each point given in the linked article. Here's what I came up with.

1. Be open to data at the start. A closed mind is the first sign of a fuddy-duddy, a hide-bound Bible banger.

2. Network like crazy. The more people you can get in on your project to stir things up, the better.

3. Document your own learning. Just don't be to specific, learn to hedge, to redefine. Watch out for people who want to pin you down on doctrine.

4. Take senior management along. The more elders, deacons, and preachers you can win over, the further you'll go.

5. No fear! Remember, the great majority, though silent, are with you.

6. Be a learning person yourself. But never let the biblical evidence sway you away from your certainty that it's mostly opinion, anyway.

7. Laugh when it hurts. But it's better if you can laugh when the other side hurts.

8. Know the business before you try to change anything. Know who's close to whom, who the main figures are, how to weasle your way into the power structure.

9. Finish what you start. Rome wasn't built in a day, so you won't get the old fogeys to move quickly. Slow and steady will bring you success.