preachers
Sunday sermon deliverers
Preachers are people who deliver sermons or religious messages, typically clergy members speaking to congregations.
The term extends to anyone who advocates persistently for a cause or moral position: He's always preaching about the evils of processed food.
To call someone a preacher outside religious contexts often implies unwelcome moralizing.
Church speaking platform
- homilyReligious discourse on scripture
- congregationAssembled group of worshippers
- scriptureSacred religious writings
- exhortationUrgent persuasive appeal
oratory · rhetoric · proclamation · message · lecture · discourse · parable · testimony
Christian congregation leader
- ministerReligious leader or serve
- reverendWorthy of veneration
- evangelistZealous advocate or preacher
- chaplainInstitutional clergy member
parson · rector · vicar · cleric · bishop · deacon · curate · friar
Trust without proof
- gospelSacred choral tradition
- salvationDeliverance from harm
- prayerAddress to deity
- worshipReligious reverence and praise
devotion · holiness · piety · blessing · prophecy · revelation · anointing · calling
Moral correctness or virtue
- virtueMoral goodness or merit
- ethicsStudy of right conduct
- sinViolation of divine law
- judgmentReasoned decision-making capacity
conscience · repentance · atonement · forgiveness · temperance · abstinence · morality · commandments
Cause to act
- upliftRaise emotionally or physically
- exhortUrge earnestly
- encourageUrge forward with support
- persuadeCause to believe
move · stir · rouse · awaken · galvanize · convict · convert · transform
Mendicant religious order members
- mendicantOne who begs
- DominicanPreaching order member
- AquinasScholastic philosopher-theologian surname
- InquisitionChurch tribunal against heretics
rosary · habit · convent · priory · scholasticism
pulpit
Church speaking platform
- homilyReligious discourse on scripture
- congregationAssembled group of worshippers
- scriptureSacred religious writings
exhortation · oratory · rhetoric · proclamation · message · lecture · discourse · parable · testimony · altar call
pastor
Christian congregation leader
- ministerReligious leader or serve
- reverendWorthy of veneration
- evangelistZealous advocate or preacher
chaplain · parson · rector · vicar · cleric · bishop · deacon · curate · friar · monk
faith
Trust without proof
worship · devotion · holiness · piety · blessing · prophecy · revelation · anointing · calling · ministry
righteousness
Moral correctness or virtue
judgment · conscience · repentance · atonement · forgiveness · temperance · abstinence · morality · commandments · wickedness
motivate
Cause to act
persuade · move · stir · rouse · awaken · galvanize · convict · convert · transform · captivate
friars
Mendicant religious order members
- mendicantOne who begs
- DominicanPreaching order member
- AquinasScholastic philosopher-theologian surname
Inquisition · rosary · habit · convent · priory · scholasticism
- missionsmissionary work, foreign missions, mission trips, mission work, mission stations
- tent revivaltent revival, camp meeting, altar call, altar calls, evangelist
- Redemptorists
- believersbeliever, believers, adherent, devotee, theist
- notable peoplepoliticians, artists, leaders, writers, scientists
- persuaderspersuader, orator, orators, public speaker, speechmaker
preacherscongregation
Assembled group of worshippers
listeners · parishioners · flock · audience · followers
preacherslaypeople
Those outside a profession
laity · laymen · atheists · nonbelievers · secularists
preacherssinners
Moral law violators
hedonists · libertines · reprobates · profligates · transgressors
- preaches to the choirAdvocates to sympathizers
- preached to the choirAdvocated to supporters needlessly
- practice what one preachesBehave consistently with stated beliefs
- practicing what one preachesMatching actions to words
- preaches to the convertedPersuades the already persuaded
- guest preacher