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Definition of congregant in English: congregantnoun ˈkɒŋɡrɪɡ(ə)ntˈkäNGɡrəɡənt A member of a congregation, especially that of a church or synagogue. Example sentencesExamples - We expect that all congregants, whether minority or majority, will talk of costs and benefits.
- He failed, however, to project the charisma and religiosity which many congregants sought.
- Indeed, when I asked why the congregants came to the church, many of them attributed it to the good feelings they gained in converting to the new religion.
- In this fourth stage, it is clear that preachers dismiss rhetoric to their own peril and to the peril of the religiosity of their congregants.
- In 1968, congregants contributed about 3 percent of their income to the church.
- They sing a cappella, circling the pews as congregants trickle in and join the singing.
- A former congregant had flown in from his new home in Australia the day before, to leave this afternoon to London.
- The leader will invite all congregants who feel the Torah passage is speaking to this issue in their lives to join in that aliyah.
- We needed some tender loving care, and usually the congregants don't think of themselves as being obligated to fulfill that role.
- Full-time clergy may be paid either out of public taxation or the donations of the congregants.
- This concern for social justice, in turn, creates a norm within congregations that is supported and nourished by the congregants.
- Rabbis can connect with their postmodern congregants by demonstrating that the grand narrative of God, Torah, and Israel is not a hermetically sealed book.
- He ran aground, though, when he insisted that a congregant must show some believable evidence of being truly godly.
- As I have attempted to show, the congregants convert to the Christian God because of the divine tutelage they believe they have received.
- In addition, we collected data on the friendship networks of the congregants.
- Furthermore, these broader social changes do not only distort the preached message of the churches; they also have transformed the congregants listening in the pews.
- His relationship with his congregants necessarily has become more remote, formal, and abstract.
- Then, a senior congregant said God blesses him although he has not humbled himself enough before God.
- Similarly, the acceptance of gay rabbis - although small in number - indicates that the majority of congregants judge a person by their integrity rather than their sexuality.
- As a result, the secularized congregants in our pews tend to be ‘religious agnostics’ rather than true believers.
Origin Late 19th century: from Latin congregant- 'collecting (into a flock), uniting', from the verb congregare (see congregate). Definition of congregant in US English: congregantnounˈkäNGɡrəɡənt A member of a congregation, especially that of a church or synagogue. Example sentencesExamples - He failed, however, to project the charisma and religiosity which many congregants sought.
- Similarly, the acceptance of gay rabbis - although small in number - indicates that the majority of congregants judge a person by their integrity rather than their sexuality.
- In this fourth stage, it is clear that preachers dismiss rhetoric to their own peril and to the peril of the religiosity of their congregants.
- A former congregant had flown in from his new home in Australia the day before, to leave this afternoon to London.
- Furthermore, these broader social changes do not only distort the preached message of the churches; they also have transformed the congregants listening in the pews.
- Indeed, when I asked why the congregants came to the church, many of them attributed it to the good feelings they gained in converting to the new religion.
- He ran aground, though, when he insisted that a congregant must show some believable evidence of being truly godly.
- In addition, we collected data on the friendship networks of the congregants.
- This concern for social justice, in turn, creates a norm within congregations that is supported and nourished by the congregants.
- His relationship with his congregants necessarily has become more remote, formal, and abstract.
- We expect that all congregants, whether minority or majority, will talk of costs and benefits.
- In 1968, congregants contributed about 3 percent of their income to the church.
- We needed some tender loving care, and usually the congregants don't think of themselves as being obligated to fulfill that role.
- The leader will invite all congregants who feel the Torah passage is speaking to this issue in their lives to join in that aliyah.
- Then, a senior congregant said God blesses him although he has not humbled himself enough before God.
- Rabbis can connect with their postmodern congregants by demonstrating that the grand narrative of God, Torah, and Israel is not a hermetically sealed book.
- They sing a cappella, circling the pews as congregants trickle in and join the singing.
- Full-time clergy may be paid either out of public taxation or the donations of the congregants.
- As a result, the secularized congregants in our pews tend to be ‘religious agnostics’ rather than true believers.
- As I have attempted to show, the congregants convert to the Christian God because of the divine tutelage they believe they have received.
Origin Late 19th century: from Latin congregant- ‘collecting (into a flock), uniting’, from the verb congregare (see congregate). |