{"id":499,"date":"2007-08-07T00:04:17","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T04:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/499"},"modified":"2007-08-07T15:16:24","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T19:16:24","slug":"how-to-make-silly-putty-a-ministry-skill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/499","title":{"rendered":"How to make silly putty (a ministry skill)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the serious and lofty education most of us clergy receive in seminary (theology, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, hermeneutics, philosophy, etc.) ministry has, decidedly, a pragmatic <i>skills<\/i> component to it. As one person put it, you have to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153know stuff\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (and she wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t referring to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153book learnin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d). Pity the congregational minister who doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t develop skills to grease the rails of ministry in the real world. To quote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0374900\/\">Napoleon Dynamite<\/a>, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You know, like nunchuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills&#8230; Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/gallery_napoleon_dynamite_1.jpg' alt='gallery_napoleon_dynamite_1.jpg' \/><br \/>\n<strong>Napoleon Dynamite (Jon Heder)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a skill that can come in handy: How To Make Silly Putty (hey, you never know. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve used just about every skill I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got at some point in ministry, from how to remove a fishhook from a child\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cheek, to how to hang drywall, to hotwiring a church van, to programming a computer). <\/p>\n<p>And for those of you who want to dig deeper, here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sillyputty.com\/\">Silly Putty University<\/a> (I&#8217;m not making that up). <\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/galindobanner3.jpg' alt='galindobanner3.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p>Want more? Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <a href=\"http:\/\/csc2.sunbelt-software.com\/putty\/\">50 lbs. of silly putty dropped.<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the serious and lofty education most of us clergy receive in seminary (theology, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, hermeneutics, philosophy, etc.) ministry has, decidedly, a pragmatic skills component to it. As one person put it, you have to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153know stuff\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/499\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12,26,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-games","category-humor","category-reviews-and-recommendations-on-movies-and-films-about-faith-life-systems-etc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}