church assembly
Faithful meeting together
A church assembly is a gathering of church members for worship, governance, or fellowship.
The term may refer to a regular congregation meeting for services or to a formal convening of church officials to discuss doctrine or administration: The church assembly voted on the new building proposal.
Some denominations use "assembly" in their official names to emphasize communal worship.
- worship serviceReligious observance gathering
- hymnReligious song of praise
- synodChurch governing assembly
- church councilAssembly of clergy deciding matters
- choirOrganized group of singers
prayer · prayer meeting · sermon · convocation · congregation · quorum · Eucharist · presbytery · elders · lay leaders · consistory · ecclesiology · vestry · council · voting members · delegates · liturgy · general assembly
- assembliesdelegates, gathering, Roman Senate, sessions, general assembly
- church gatheringschurch council, assemblies, conferences, congresses, convocation
- church-statechurch-state, separation, church-state separation, establishment clause, religious accommodation
- church councilscouncils, synods, church councils, convocation, convocations
- ProtestantismLutheran, Protestantism, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian
organized vs. disorganized gathering
church assemblydispersal
Spreading in many directions
scattering · dissolution · diaspora · exodus · underground church