Chapter One of Immunity to Change is entitled “Reconceiving the Challenge of Change” and expresses the three plateaus in adult mental complexity of socialized mind, self authoring mind, and self transforming mind. The socialized mind is a team player and faithful follower and this is the complexity in which the church wants the congregational leader to exhibit. For example, the reader remembers asking a question about what each line item on the ‘budget list’ stands for and the she was told “you have to pay it and there is no need to questions.” The socialized mind is the easiest of complexity and is immune to change. Immunity to change is the inability to adapt when challenges arises. The complexity of the socialized mind does not
