Beauty Tips for Ministers
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Dressing Up Improves Your Productivity!
September 30, 2007 on 2:07 pm | In Basic Grooming Issues, Clergy Image, Tips For My Menfolk |Sez these people here in this article!
So you mean if I come home from the gym on Thursday morning and change into a suit, my sermon will come more easily and brilliantly than if I write in my sweaty work-out clothes?
(Who am I kidding, anyway? We all know I haven’t been in sweaty work-out clothes since May.)
But, I mean, HYPOTHETICALLY?
Seriously, it’s a pretty good article. A lot of it is the usual cliches (e.g., “dress for the job you want, not the job you have” doesn’t really apply for pastors because the job I WANT is to be Jesus and have godly healing powers and everything, but that’s not BLOODY LIKELY, as they say), but there’s a nice statement in there about how you dress “announcing to the world” how you feel about yourself.
Right now how I feel about myself is very tired. I dropped a big blob of pizza sauce on my left lapel during our lunch at church and after both leading the service and teaching a 2-hour session on UU history and heritage, I’ve been beaten with both the Ugly Stick AND the Tired Stick.
There were so many new faces in church today I got a little bit confused at one point when I looked out in the congregation during the sermon and didn’t recognize half the people. I had this moment of radical disorientation where I thought either (a) I was dreaming about the church service rather than being at it or (b) I was being punk’d for a new reality show called “Someone Swapped My Congregation!” I thought, “While I had my eyes closed during the prayer, did Ashton Kutcher come in here with 100 strangers and sneak them into the pews, or what?
NAP TIME, boys and girls.
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while I don’t wear the sweatpants, I have always found that wearing the suit actually impairs my sermon-writing ability. However, it works for productivity in other areas of my ministry. just not the nitty-gritty, creative sermon-writing part.
Comment by Diane — September 30, 2007 #
So my brain is on overdrive right now, and I’m thinking–Hmmm. If you dress for the job you want, and that’s to be Jesus, then you’ll be in a loosely woven linen tunic with a hemp belt, and nothing else, except a pair of sandals maybe, or maybe a sheepskin thrown over for warmth. And then people will look at you really strangely, and maybe the nice people in the nice van will take you away and place you in a nice padded room, and you’ll really be talking with The Least Among Us (according to conventional societal standards) and that would pretty much give you a good clue as to what it’s like to be Jesus, but would probably result in you loosing your job, which isn’t really the point, cause I bet you’d just like to be Like Jesus, not really be Jesus. It would be very hard work to be Jesus.
So lets just stick to the nice Professional Clothes, and comfy clothes for sermon writing. And no “Bite Me” t-shirts. Anytime.
Comment by marcia — October 1, 2007 #
Well, I’ve found that carrying a cross and wearing a crown of thorns can give you that Jesus look that you are striving for. Then again…there’s the nice white van thing.
Comment by god guurrll — October 2, 2007 #