1.Pastors/denominational leaders and the like exist to preserve, to propagate. 2.Scholars exist to discover, to re-define. 3.Those who seek to sustain a tradition, to preserve and spread a way of life almost always view the “change agent” as a threat. 4.The change agent almost always views the preserver as an obstacle, a gate-keeper. 5.The more rigid and particular the tradition being preserved is, the greater the tension one finds between its preservers and those seeking to investigate it, challenge it, reshape it and redefine it. 6.The truth is, however, that without preservers, institutions of all forms lack stability & direction. 7.So also, without change agents, institutions of all forms stagnate and die from within. 8.There is a vital symbiosis between the administrative leader and the scholar in every institution, a symbiosis that is threatened by an overly aggressive stance by either functionary.
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 05:47:50 +0000