mechanics recedes. We focus on projects and subordinate our skills to them. The musician attends to the piece, not her left index finger. The speaker thinks of the next idea, not the pronunciation of the next vocable. Skills are, as Polanyi says, “personal knowledge,” not theoretical knowledge. If application is personal knowledge, a skill, one could argue that it is best learned from a master, even if the master can only partially explain it. If application is a skill, the church most needs an apprenticeship