![]() ![]() It is possible for a church usher to concentrate both on the people he is serving and on the church service in progress. If ushers were ranked like men in the army, a promotion should be given to every usher who learns to concentrate on people’s names.Ĭ. Awareness of empty seats in this general seating pattern comes only by concentration. Seating visitors next to regular churchgoers with a word of introduction is helpful to new people. Prompt, direct seating of people in their usual place is an indication to them of the ushersĪwareness. Since the seating habits of people tend to be established, learn these arrangements. In this ministry there are three areas of concentration.ī. The usher is there to serve the people with individual help. no less concentration is needed by the ushers than is necessary for the pastor, organist, pianist, choir director, soloist, or teacher. Paul includes ushers when he said, “And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord…for ye serve the Lord Christ” (Colossians 3:23, 24). Signals are missed, communications are not heard, the needs of people are ignored, and the quality of an usher’s effectiveness drops to zero when his mind wanders. The unpardonable sin of a church usher is inattention. ![]() An usher in the vestibule can enhance or detract from the ministry in the channel by the way he administers his own duties.Ī. An attitude the usherĭemonstrates in the foyer of the church is a forerunner of the ministry to be experienced in the sanctuary. As John the Baptist was a forerunner for the ministry of Jesus Christ, the church usher is a forerunner for all the other ministries in the congregation. 5:16 “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven.Ĥ. A lamp brings warmth and welcome to all who are in the room. A good usher…is like a lamp on a stand, not put under a bushel but on a candlestick and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.” Matt. The first glimpse of an usher to a regular or a 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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