5:14, Also a good usher is like “a city set upon a hill” while they are inconspicuous they are also landmarks to churchgoers, who learn to depend on them. Colossians 4:6 “Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt.” A good Usher adds a tang of joy to a churchgoer’s service instead of a tinge of drabness.Ģ. It was these doorkeepers or ushers, whoĬarried out the orders of the high priests in the persecutions in the temple against the Apostles immediately following Pentecost, and 30 years later in the arrests and maltreatment of St. In the Acts of the Apostles, “the captain of the temple” and “the officers” are referred to several times in connection with arrests and general handling of the crowds. The Old Testament Chronicler wrote of Shallum and his brethren who “were over the word of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle…keepers of the entry” (I Chronicles 9:19). House of the Lord, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan…a man of God… the keeper of the door” (Jeremiah 35:4). Jeremiah refers to one of these doorkeepers as a “man of God”. Into the house of the Lord, which the keepers of the door have gathered from the people” (II Kings 22:4).

One of the functions of doorkeepers in the Old Testament was to receive the collections from the people: “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought The Psalmist, who wrote to the chief musician in the temple, understood the importance of ushers when he said, “How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts!… Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee…I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of Ushers in the Old Testament tabernacle, and later in the temple, were called doorkeepers. 14:40 “Let all things be done decently and in II Timothy 2:24-25, “The servant of the Lord must be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves.” I Cor.

Ushering is the silent ministry that is a blessing to every service. The enthusiasm of the Ushers & Greeters is contagious. Ushering has been a step-child in many churches for too long. INTRODUCTION: An Usher is a personal representative of Jesus Christ.

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