Thursday, March 31, 2011

"Advocates of Change"

This evening I'm reading "Anthropology for Christian Witness" by Charles Kraft and these things stood out to me on advocating change. Maybe you can apply some of these things to your life : ) Note: This is straight from the book.

* Persons from outside a society cannot implement change within that society.
* Outsiders can only recommend. They may, however, recommend persuasively. We call such recommenders advocates.
* Those who respond positively to the recommendations of outsiders are called acceptors.
*Acceptors, as soon as they put the change into practice, become implementors or innovators (Barnett).
* Implementors who get excited about a change and recommend it to others (either by word or deed) become advocates within their societies.

Who/What are you an advocate for?


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