I am short, 5' 7 1/2" tall, bald with a fringe of white hair.  I have blue eyes and am a bit rotund.  I could alter my appearance with elevator shoes, a taupe and tinted contact lenses but beneath the disguise I would still be the same short, bald, blue-eyed fellow.

Change agents are false teachers.  They are deceptive.  They despise the church of Christ. They reject the Bible as the complete and final authority in things religious.  They want to capture the minds and hearts of our people for their new brand of denominational religion and are willing to use sleight of hand to do so. They want the church buildings and schools our brethren have sacrificed to build and pay for.  They know if they approach a congregation openly avowing the above truths they would not get inside the door, so they carefully mask their real agenda and intentions.

* They wear a mask of righteous piety.
* They carry a Bible, although they accuse those of us who love and obey it of Bibliolatry.
* They talk much about unity and fault us for our divisions, all the while they are fomenting yet another rent in the body of Christ.
* They claim to be legitimate heirs of the Restoration fathers, yet they are dismantling and destroying the great work those pioneers in the faith did.
* They preach love and complain about the harshness of those who challenge them, but sarcasm and hostility drip from their words and pens when they respond to those who stand in their way.
* They speak and write much about salvaging and helping the church, but their goal is to reduce the church of Christ to the status of a human denomination and merge her into the murky waters of Protestantism.

Paul admonishes us, "Let no man deceive you" (II Thess. 2:3). Some may be fooled by the disguise of the agents of change, but those who know God's Word will readily spot the deception.  Pretense cannot replace reality. A wolf is still a wolf no matter how nice his sheep skin covers him (Matt.7:15).