I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.
As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field leading inspections. It's typically what you do at that level. I was trying to motivate, direct, find strategies.
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.