Call to Repentance and Change

Topics: Change

Erwin M. Soukup has compiled what he terms "The Seven Steps to
Stagnation":

1. We've never done it that way before.
2. We're not ready for that.
3. We are doing all right without trying that.
4. We tried it once before.
5. We don't have money for that.
6. That's not our job.
7. Something like that can't work.

Soukup admits that "there's probably an eighth step, but we've never
looked it up before."

Martin E. Marty, "Context," April 15, 1985, p. 5.