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un·church
uhn chuhrch
unchurches, unchurching, unchurched
verb
transitive verb
to expel from a church : excommunicate
to deprive of a church or of status as a church
The first known use of unchurch was circa 1620
1 The first concern of all the churches should be to reach the unchurched and to make church friends of the church-haters.
2 While religiously unaffiliated people in days gone by might have been “unchurched,” this is no longer the case.
3 An “unchurched grandma” in a “foursquare house” might as well be a foursquare grandma in an unchurched house.
4 “The unchurched boy joins the troop, and then the unchurched family joins the church.”
5 “Because of the recent discussion of Second Amendment rights, it’s fueled an interest for unchurched men,” McAlister says.
6 “There are still people there and still people who are unchurched, and it’s our business to be open to them and invite them in,” he said.
7 In an age when more and more people are unchurched, this is itself a public service.
8 Even the Quakers, the most unchurched apparently of any, who renounced the visible ministry, and the visible sacraments, made themselves presently into the most compact church of all.
9 One is Fresh Expressions, a mixture of new congregations such as Messy Church for children and Café Church for grown-ups, trying to reach the unchurched.
10 Mr. Simeon of Cambridge had previously set the example of caring for the unchurched population by his personal labors and the outlay of his large private fortune.
11 In 1826, the American Home Missionary Society pledged to send ministers to the unchurched West.
12 The elfin race were supposed to be on the watch for unchurched or unsained mothers to have the benefit of their milk.
13 After John the Baptist's ministry to what we should call the 'unchurched' masses, Jesus took up their cause.
14 It has unchurched millions, is still unchurching at a tremendous rate, and will end by unchurching itself.
15 In addition the tendency of foreigners is to throw off religion along with other compulsory things that belonged to the Old World life and to add to the number of the unchurched.
16 “Young people, teenagers, are way more ‘unchurched’ than they used to be.
17 They found, for instance, that 40 percent of liberals are unchurched, but only 9 percent of conservatives.
18 As Ruth Graham and Charles Homans reported for the New York Times, these unchurched Christians build their spiritual lives around "podcasts and YouTube channels that discuss politics ... from a right-wing, and sometimes Christian, worldview."
19 A real Church has therefore something to give to, and something to demand from each of its members, and there is a genuine loss for man in being unchurched.
20 It secures the respectful attention of the unchurched portion of the community and assures the police that the efforts are sane, sound and determined.
1 逐出教会