Seven steps to stagnation

Sometime in the 1980's Rev. Erwin M. Soukup (Archdeacon of Chicago) compiled "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 added "there's probably an eighth step, but we've never looked it up before."

Norm Lincoln (of Ohio Lodge of Research) suggests the eighth (ninth?) step might be - "Don't stir things up!"