“I had rather be a doorkeeper [italics added] in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.” In the New Testament, it seems clear that Jesus often used His disciples as ushers: And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground. And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full