Definition of "church"

He got the message and was in church the next Sunday. We need to stay in church with the fellowship of others in order to keep the fire of faith burning brightly.

2007, John R. Dodd, Bucky and Friends, page 117

Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.

Acts 20:28, New International Version

Many young people find their only role models of family life in church.

2007, Bill Gibson, The Ultimate Church Sound Operator's Handbook, page 78

He got the message and was in church the next Sunday. We need to stay in church with the fellowship of others in order to keep the fire of faith burning brightly.

2007, John R. Dodd, Bucky and Friends, page 117

As they actively get involved in ministry, lay ministry becomes vigorous, and new believers will settle in church with more ease.

2008, Yil Gyoung Kang, Enhancing understanding the church through preaching on ..., page 61

she had very many adults in church with whom she could talk about issues in life.

2009, Christian Smith with Patricia Snell, Souls in Transition, page 194

Ruthie had left the church disappointed , reluctant to give up the idea that she was chosen by God to become a saint . But within a month she had sinned by lying , masturbating , and coveting Sarah 130 • Beu Marshall.

2004, Bev Marshall, Right as Rain‎, Ballantine Books, page 130

Pastors complained that they were not allowed enough authority in church, with women exercising too much informal control.

1997, Paul Harvey, Redeeming the South: Religious Cultures and Racial Identities ..., page 119

Some people are always saying, "Oh, you have too much church." You never get too much church. I go to church every day.

2000, Lee Roberson, Disturbing Questions...: Solid Answers, page 174

the learned women will be qualified to lead in church with equal grace and equal insight and equal gifts.

2003, George Shillington, On a Journey with God: You Come Too, page 53

But in Muslim countries, Church and State are one indissolubly, and until the very essence of Islam passes away, that unity cannot be relaxed. The law of the land, too, is, in theory, the law of the Church.

1903, Duncan Black MacDonald, Development of Muslim Theology, Jurisprudence and Constitutional Theory, page 4

Because the pan-Buddhist movement was heavily supported by the Japanese in Inner Mongolia, the Buddhist church, already under attack by Soviet-backed antireligion campaigns in Outer Mongolia, was further damaged […]

1991, Cyril E. Black et al., The Modernization of Inner Asia‎, page 15

The secular absolutist model is based on a strict separation between church and state.

2001, Ayelet Shachar, Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women's Rights‎, page 72

Among these, the church must investigate fundemental questions, […]

2007, Scott A. Merriman, Religion and the Law in America‎, page 313

Thenne after this lady was delyuerd and chirched / there came a knyghte vnto her / his name was sire Bromel la pleche / the whiche was a grete lord and he hadde loued that lady longe / and he euermore desyred her to wedde her / and soo by no meane she coude putte hym of(please add an English translation of this quotation)

1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “Tercium”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XI

Nor did it [the Church] accept that the woman should stay indoors until she had been churched.

1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 36