Preacher jokes? Dad jokes? You decide.

There are certain jokes that are practically a reflex with me, but I have to teach them every time I start serving a new church.

When someone asks me to pray for good weather, or a victory for their chosen sports team, I reply, “I’m in sales, not management.”

Once in a while when I return to the office in the middle of the day I say to my secretary, “Back to the old salt lick.”

I teach her to respond, “Salt mine.”

To which I reply, “Salt your what?”

The exchange concludes with her muttering “Never mind.”

My personal favorite is a line I use when wearing one of my Guatemalan stoles.

I point to the ΧΡ symbol, which looks like this

and ask, “Is my P straight?”

The appropriate response is, “Pastor, perhaps you should see a urologist.”

It usually takes the choir at least six months to learn this one. But it’s worth it.