  Food for Thought: This qoute comes from the book, Welcoming Resistance by William Chris Hobgood, page 45,"... the congregation without initiatives is mired in mediocrity, racking up reasons to be called irrelevant and heading into decline. Yet the impulse of all systems, congregations included, is tot maintain stasis, or balanced stability. In spite of the latter, we find that biological systems change-a fact as natural to them as the stability impulse. Smiliarly, social systems, like congregations, change just as much as they need to maintain stability. Neither biological nor social systems will stand still, however powerful that impulse may be . " 
