(n.) One who believes, or professes or is assumed to believe, in Jesus Christ, and the truth as taught by Him; especially, one whose inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ.
(n.) One born in a Christian country or of Christian parents, and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an opposing system.
(n.) One of a Christian denomination which rejects human creeds as bases of fellowship, and sectarian names. They are congregational in church government, and baptize by immersion. They are also called Disciples of Christ, and Campbellites.
(n.) One of a sect (called Christian Connection) of open-communion immersionists. The Bible is their only authoritative rule of faith and practice.
(a.) Pertaining to Christ or his religion; as, Christian people.
(a.) Pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical; as, a Christian court.
(a.) Characteristic of Christian people; civilized; kind; kindly; gentle; beneficent.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Tirana, Francis lauded the mutual respect and trust between Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians in Albania as a "precious gift" and a powerful symbol in today's world.
(2) Federal judges who blocked the bans cited harsh rhetoric employed by Trump on the campaign trail , specifically a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US and support for giving priority to Christian refugees, as being reflective of the intent behind his travel ban.
(3) Photograph: Jared Malsin for The Guardian They are among at least seven Egyptians – six Christians and one Muslim – who are believed to be held hostage in Libya, though that is regarded as a conservative estimate.
(4) In previous years, Ukip members have sought a more traditional Christian basis for RE.
(5) There are Christians coming from Syria, it doesn’t matter who it is, we would help anybody.
(6) The report was published on the same day that the charity Christians Against Poverty said it expects its free debt counselling service to experience its busiest day on record.
(7) The retreat of government forces had left tens of thousands exposed to the savagery of Isis, especially those from the country's minorities, including Christians and members of the Yazidi sect.
(8) The strikes “without a doubt put communitarian peace in danger,” Hendrik Bogaert, a Flemish Christian Democrat MP, told Le Soir.
(9) It is home to most of the country's five million Muslims, but Christians remain the overall majority.
(10) The main Absolute Radio station, which features presenters including breakfast DJ Christian O'Connell, Frank Skinner and Dave Gorman, had an average weekly reach of 1.375 million listeners in the final quarter of last year, down 16.9% on the previous quarter and 7.9% year on year.
(11) "It was a great debut for Christian," said the Spurs manager.
(12) Three hundred and forty-eight cranial remains from Bronze and Iron Age British, Romano-British, Anglo-Saxon, Eastern Coast Australian aborigines, Medieval Christian Norse, Medieval Scarborough, 17--20th century British and German cultures, were examined for the presence of osteoarthritis in the temporomandibular joints.
(13) There has been no shortage of accusations of widespread war crimes and crimes against humanity against Christian and other minorities in eastern Myanmar and a slow but systematic genocide against the Rohingya Muslims in western Myanmar.
(14) Throughout his career he has continued to champion Crane, seeing him as the direct heir to Walt Whitman – Whitman being "not just the most American of poets but American poetry proper, our apotropaic champion against European culture" – and slayer of neo-Christian adversaries such as "the clerical TS Eliot" and the old New Critics, who were and are anathema to Bloom, unresting defender of the Romantic tradition.
(15) Cheers erupted at a camp for 100,000 displaced Christian civilians at the French-controlled airport .
(16) Asked why Muslims had been singled out, rather than followers of other faiths, Batten said: "Christians aren't blowing people up at the moment, are they?
(17) With Christian Eriksen peripheral on the left and Aaron Lennon well policed, the responsibility to unlock Everton came to rest on Dembélé.
(18) It seems that Pfeiffer-Weber-Christian disease and nodular panniculitis with liquefaction are varying expressions of the same disease entity.
(19) Christian Benteke has been revitalised under Sherwood and he followed up his hat-trick in last Tuesday’s 3-3 draw with Queens Park Rangers by scoring the winner here.
(20) Boko Haram spies spread the rumour that she refused to covert from Christianity to Islam.
Churchgoer
Definition:
(n.) One who attends church.
Example Sentences:
(1) Smith was a churchgoer who played softball with his two girls.
(2) In contrast to the major push for new regulations on firearms after 26 children were shot and killed in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012, the deaths of nine African American churchgoers during Bible study has not sparked a similar legislative effort on Capitol Hill.
(3) On Sundays, some churchgoers practice an adapted version – Chrizonto – while enthusiasts can be spied in music-filled funeral processions winding their way down Jamestown's hilly roads.
(4) The prevalence of cigarette smoking was lower among regular churchgoers and older people.
(5) A senior Church of England bishop appealed to traditionalists not to defy the overwhelming majority of ordinary churchgoers by voting down the legislation.
(6) The town where the Protestant Reformation was launched 500 years ago has come under sharp criticism from churchgoers over its nomination of the Russian punk rock band Pussy Riot for a freedom of speech prize.
(7) First, the campaign had a deadline which attracted a huge constituency of churchgoers inspired by the Biblical concept of jubilee, a time to offer dramatic redress for injustice.
(8) This student sample held relatively conservative attitudes towards love, sex, and marriage and this was particularly true for females and for regular churchgoers.
(9) He also doesn’t have a credible religious leader trying to field the concerns of Christians for him; those who have gotten close, such as Joel Osteen (whose “prosperity gospel” theology is more popular with notional believers than with regular churchgoers) or James Dobson, have been ridiculed .
(10) The annual report noted that last year’s returns on the investment fund, which helps pay for the church’s work by topping up donations from churchgoers, meant it had outperformed the London stock market, which “eked out a 1% rise in 2015”.
(11) Singing “Amazing Grace” in a Charleston church in memory of slaughtered churchgoers, his easy relationship with his daughters and deep love for his wife, the genuinely funny White House Correspondents’ Dinner speeches.
(12) The movie could give churchgoers a serious headache.
(13) One of his grandfathers had been a minister, and the family were churchgoers.
(14) I am not a churchgoer; I do this in a secular capacity.
(15) As in the case of the gunman who attacked a roomful of churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina in a racially motivated attack in June , debate quickly welled up around whether to consider the Planned Parenthood gunman a “terrorist”.
(16) At the time, the Liberal Democrats, then part of the coalition government, opposed a permanent relaxation, insisting that Sunday should remain special and that the compromise between consumers, traders, shopworkers and churchgoers should be retained.
(17) His parents were churchgoers, and the community rallied around them.
(18) On the other hand the bishop himself is a firm supporter of an assisted suicide law , as are a majority of self-identified Anglicans and a very large minority of regular churchgoers .
(19) Everything he says sounds balanced and measured – "I am extreme in my moderation," he explains – and the certainty and confidence probably derive (though he is no longer a churchgoer himself) from his Scottish Protestant background.
(20) What happened that day was not God's will, Adams-Shepherd told the churchgoers.