What is the community of a church called?

What is the community of a church called?

Although the word is most usually assigned to the members of a church, any gathering might be called a congregation, including a gathering of animals. Come to think of it, a congregation of church members is often called a “flock.”

What is the room in a church called?

Most protestants will call it the Sanctuary. Catholic, Orthodox and Anglicans will call in the Nave, the Sanctuary being the region around the altar. And for those same Churches the area in front of the doors is called the Narthex.

What is the worship area of a church called?

In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building.

What is a pastor of a church?

A pastor is someone with the authority to lead religious services. Pastors lead church services and help others worship. Pastor is a religious title used mostly in Christian churches. The pastor is a leader within a church who has been ordained and therefore given the authority to conduct religious services.

What is a person who goes to church called?

1. churchgoer – a religious person who goes to church regularly. church member. religious person – a person who manifests devotion to a deity. congregant – a member of a congregation (especially that of a church or synagogue)

What makes a church a community?

Churchgoers and leaders alike help create a community within the church that glorifies Christ. The unity and diversity within the church enriches the church community, equipping people in the church for righteousness to glorify Christ and to spread the news of His love and salvation that extends to all people.

What is church pulpit?

pulpit, in Western church architecture, an elevated and enclosed platform from which the sermon is delivered during a service.

What is church sacristy?

sacristy, also called vestry, in architecture, room in a Christian church in which vestments and sacred objects used in the services are stored and in which the clergy and sometimes the altar boys and the choir members put on their robes.

What is the church stage called?

chancel
The place the pastor speaks from is the pulpit. But what do we call the place where the pulpit and musicians and choir are located? Generically, it’s called the stage. In strictly church-specific terms, it’s called the chancel.

Are pastors allowed to marry?

Present-day practice. Generally speaking, in modern Christianity, Protestant and some independent Catholic churches allow for ordained clergy to marry after ordination.

What is it called when you believe in God but don’t go to church?

The correct term may most likely be a theist or a secular-theist.

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