What's the difference between church and churchgoing?
Church
Definition:
(n.) A building set apart for Christian worship.
(n.) A Jewish or heathen temple.
(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.
Churchgoing
Definition:
(a.) Habitually attending church.
(a.) Summoning to church.
Example Sentences:
(1) His parents were, he says, "incredibly lovely first-generation middle-class churchgoing people.
(2) Smoke plumed from ruined African-American-owned small businesses like Fashions R Boutique, where local women have bought fancy hats and churchgoing outfits for almost 20 years.
(3) Human rights activists accuse authorities in Zhejiang province in eastern China of using the protracted campaign to slow Christianity’s growth in what is one of the country’s most churchgoing regions.
(4) Women make up about 70% of the Catholic churchgoing population but there are relatively few likely contenders.
(5) This has been one of Law and Justice’s most effective tools.” Polish elections 2015: a guide to the parties, polls and electoral system Read more With the churchgoing and rural base already in its pocket, Law and Justice has departed from moral issues and run a populist campaign with broad appeal.
(6) But now the former star of ITV2’s Big Ass Show returns from the safe haven of novel-writing with an autobiographical solo show, I Was a Teenage Christian, about her four-times-a-week adolescent churchgoing habit.
(7) So when Archbishop Nichols condemns the government, he does it not only as the leader of the largest churchgoing faith community in the country, but also as someone who is directly connected to scores of organisations that see exactly what is happening on the ground.
(8) The correlation between regular churchgoing and less cigarette smoking indicates an influence of puritanical norms.
(9) Like the grandees he aspired to be, he took up churchgoing and fox-hunting.
(10) Born Ronald Fiddler to devout churchgoing Jamaican parents, Mr Udeen converted to Islam in his 20s, although he rarely discussed his faith.
(11) Senator John McCain, musing that “we’ve seen this movie before”, invoked the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of Richard Nixon and the succession of Vice-President Gerald Ford – who, like Pence, was a churchgoing conservative who earned his spurs in the House.
(12) But her image was flawless: that of a proud churchgoing mother and wife concerned for the future of America.
(13) Despite some hard years as the sole child of a sick churchgoing mother (his father had died before his birth), he grew up a loyal communist and staunch supporter of the Soviet regime.
(14) We think he lied and now we will have to come to terms with what he has done.” Harith was born Ronald Fiddler in Manchester to devout churchgoing parents from Jamaica in 1966.