How to make silly putty (a ministry skill)

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 “know stuff” (and she wasn’t referring to “book learnin’”). Pity the congregational minister who doesn’t develop skills to grease the rails of ministry in the real world. To quote Napoleon Dynamite, “You know, like nunchuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills… Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills.”

Napoleon Dynamite (Jon Heder)

Here’s a skill that can come in handy: How To Make Silly Putty (hey, you never know. I’ve used just about every skill I’ve got at some point in ministry, from how to remove a fishhook from a child’s cheek, to how to hang drywall, to hotwiring a church van, to programming a computer).

And for those of you who want to dig deeper, here’s the Silly Putty University (I’m not making that up).

Want more? Here’s 50 lbs. of silly putty dropped.