It doesn’t matter what gifts you believe you have or don’t have, because you, my friend, are a doorkeeper just now. A doorkeeper doesn’t need a special gift of greeting. Even a shy person can find it in his or her heart to say hello and smile.

We have the most wonderful thing in the world! It’s the Lord Jesus Christ and the promise of salvation for the life after this one. Hear me now. The life after this one is real. There are people outside the church doors who don’t know that. Whatever it is they think or have been taught, life after death remains a mystery. Maybe it exists, they might think, maybe it doesn’t. If heaven exists, they might think, everyone can go; a good God wouldn’t keep people out, would He? People think all sorts of things. Perhaps you’ve thought some of those very things yourself. There are so many incorrect assumptions flying around out there, so much Biblical illiteracy, so much untruth, a Bible-believing church is a great place to rectify at least some of it. So there is something much more important than wanting our church to grow or having people think of us as friendly or getting a write-up in the local paper. Eternity is at stake. A doorkeeper might not be a preacher, but a doorkeeper has what a preacher does not: First access!

We’re the ones who get to give someone who approaches the door a smile and maybe a handshake. We’re the first ones privy to the astounding news available to someone who might be exposed to it for the first time. We are the ones who, with grateful hearts, get to beam our love to both new and seasoned attendees! There is no better place they could have chosen to come to! We’re the ones who get to send up silent prayers for each one stepping over the threshold. Can’t you see our whole Doorkeeper 101 class nodding a friendly nod and blinking invisible love, joy, and peace darts from our place at the door?

And the host at the Blue Fox? He reinforced one more thing. He invited us back for . . . wait for it . . . Happy Hour.

to be continued . . .

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