(n.) A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together.
(n.) A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the Presbyterian church.
(n.) The collective body of Christians.
(n.) Any body of worshipers; as, the Jewish church; the church of Brahm.
(n.) The aggregate of religious influences in a community; ecclesiastical influence, authority, etc.; as, to array the power of the church against some moral evil.
(v. t.) To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women.
Example Sentences:
(1) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(2) Atmaca, who belongs to the Gregorian-Armenian church in Istanbul, said that he nevertheless holds the current pontiff in high regard.
(3) In later years, the church built a business empire that included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, Bridgeport University in Connecticut, as well as a hotel and a car plant in North Korea.
(4) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
(5) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
(6) Alfred Liyolo, 71, one of Congo’s leading sculptors , sold several bronzes to the palace in Gbadolite and designed a church and tomb for Mobutu’s first wife; all were lost or destroyed in the looting.
(7) A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that brings a nationwide shift toward allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it.
(8) Another is that the churches were in very densely populated areas and the police did not want to go in and create more damage."
(9) He is also an active member of the Unitarian church, having returned to religion after the birth of his children.
(10) "My future was probably to become an officer [running my own church] and go to London to the William Booth College," she says.
(11) The church was the Cypriot Orthodox led by Archbishop Makarios.
(12) McDaniel supported his 2003 election as bishop of New Hampshire, which, caused conservative Episcopalians in the US to break away and was the subject of intense debate in the worldwide Anglican church.
(13) But Detre declined to comment on a report on the Guido Fawkes website that Westminster Advisers, run by the Labour supporter and former councillor Dominic Church, organised a cross-party meeting at the end of 2010 which was shown the Crosby Textor research .
(14) Is he saying that the Orthodox church is also subject to public spending cuts?
(15) In the target areas, church and community members will sponsor health fairs and discussions of adolescent pregnancy at church and at parent-teacher association meetings.
(16) Already the demand for such a liturgy is growing among clergy, who are embarrassed by having to withhold the church's official support from so many of their own flock who are in civil partnerships.
(17) Officers across the country are dealing with hundreds of cases involving abuse in the past in institutions including schools, churches and children's homes and a number of allegations relating to high profile people.
(18) The Rt Rev Stephen Lowe, the Bishop of Hulme, who speaks for the Anglican church on urban life and faith, is less sanguine.
(19) A lot of our people had to come to make sure the church was kept safe and to get the children out safely."
(20) The incident in Aswan that sparked Sunday's protest was an attack on a church that attackers claimed was being built illegally.
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.