churched
Received into membership
Churched describes someone who has been brought into or raised within a church community, with its attendant beliefs and practices: a churched upbringing, churched families.
The unchurched, by contrast, have no church affiliation.
To church someone, now rare, is to bring them formally into church membership or, historically, to conduct a thanksgiving service for a woman after childbirth.
Assembled group of worshippers
- parishLocal church community
- pewsFixed sanctuary seating
- altarSacred ritual table
- clergyOrdained religious officials collectively
sermon · liturgy · sacrament · vestments · hymns · psalms · prayer · tithe
Mentally manipulated into compliance
- conditionedTaught automatic responses
- inculcatedImplanted by persistent teaching
- programmedSet with instructions
- socializedInteracted with others
assimilated · catechized · converted · proselytized · influenced · persuaded · steeped · habituated
congregation
Assembled group of worshippers
clergy · sermon · liturgy · sacrament · vestments · hymns · psalms · prayer · tithe · baptized
brainwashed
Mentally manipulated into compliance
- conditionedTaught automatic responses
- inculcatedImplanted by persistent teaching
- programmedSet with instructions
socialized · assimilated · catechized · converted · proselytized · influenced · persuaded · steeped · habituated · cultivated
faith
Trust without proof
holiness · sacred · divine · pious · devout · blessed · grace · salvation · redemption · worship
- Christianesealtar call, backslider, blessed, born again, convicted
- faith labelsbeliever, nonbeliever, atheist, agnostic, theist
churchedunchurched
Not belonging to congregation
unaffiliated · excommunicated · disfellowshipped · nonreligious · irreligious
churchedexcommunicated
Officially cut from church
excommunicate · anathematized · disfellowshipped · expelled · barred
- church bellsBronze instruments in steeples
- the churchChristian religious institution
- church activitiesOrganized congregational programs
- church serviceOrganized Christian worship gathering
- United Methodist ChurchProtestant denomination from Wesley's movement
- church hierarchyRanked religious leadership structure
church, churches, churchyard, churchman, churchly, churchgoer, churchgoers, churchwomen, churchmen