The needs of every local assembly differ, and they are encouraged to glean from this booklet those suggestions that will be of help to them. Certainly, we do not want to discourage these men by saying something that would disparage them.
Often, men who serve as an usher just want to be of service the best way they can they may have stepped forward when no one else did. Many times, in our lives we have done things with the best of intentions but with little or no training. Throughout this booklet the writer has tried to offer some practical helps for church ushers. For the most part, this all common sense but sometimes common sense needs a little help. The handbook covers a numbers of areas for church ushers. Let all be done decorously, as becomes the worship of the great and holy God let all be without confusion, noise, and disorder.” There are many things which cannot be subjected to rule, or exactly prescribed there are many things which may and must be left to pious feeling, to good sense, and to the views of Christians themselves, about what will promote their edification and the conversion of sinners. This rule is still applicable, and is safe in guiding us in many things in regard to the worship of God. Their good sense would tell them what became the worship of God and their pious feelings would restrain them from excesses and disorders. There might be a thousand questions started about the modes and forms of worship, and the customs in the churches, and much difficulty might occur in many of these questions but here was a simple and plain rule, which might be easily applied. This is a general rule, which was to guide them. The word used here is, properly, a military term, and denotes the order and regularity with which an army is drawn up. Let all be done in order, regularly, without confusion, discord, tumult. Let all things be done in an appropriate and becoming manner decorously, as becomes the worship of God. 1 Corinthians 14:40 tells us, “Let all things be done decently and in order.” Of this verse Albert Barnes wrote in his commentary, “ Let all things be done decently and in order. Much of what is written here comes from personal experience and observations gleaned from over forty years of ministry. The purpose in writing this small booklet is to, hopefully, provide some helps for church ushers.
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