preaching
Delivering religious messages
Preaching is delivering a sermon or religious instruction, typically from a pulpit: The pastor's preaching drew crowds from across the county.
Extended to any earnest advocacy of beliefs or principles: preaching the gospel of clean eating.
Often carries a negative sense of lecturing others self-righteously: Spare me the preaching—I know I shouldn't smoke.
Inclined to criticize others
- admonishReprove with counsel
- self-righteousSmugly certain of correctness
- preachyExcessively moralizing in tone
- sanctimoniousFeigning moral superiority
lecturing · hectoring · pontificate · soapbox · holier-than-thou · finger-wagging · sermonize · harangue
Clergy's worship address
- homilyReligious discourse on scripture
- congregationAssembled group of worshippers
- ministerReligious leader or serve
- pastorChristian congregation leader
pulpit · reverend · priest · parish · clergy · altar · chancel · sanctuary
Study of the divine
- dogmaUnchallengeable official beliefs
- creedStatement of belief
- orthodoxyAdherence to accepted beliefs
- canonAccepted authoritative works
tenet · catechism · heresy · exegesis · homiletics · ecumenism · sacrament · apostasy
judgmental
Inclined to criticize others
- admonishReprove with counsel
- self-righteousSmugly certain of correctness
- preachyExcessively moralizing in tone
sanctimonious · lecturing · hectoring · pontificate · soapbox · holier-than-thou · finger-wagging · sermonize · harangue · reproach
sermon
Clergy's worship address
- homilyReligious discourse on scripture
- congregationAssembled group of worshippers
- ministerReligious leader or serve
pastor · pulpit · reverend · priest · parish · clergy · altar · chancel · sanctuary · nave
theology
Study of the divine
canon · tenet · catechism · heresy · exegesis · homiletics · ecumenism · sacrament · apostasy · sectarianism
uplift
Raise emotionally or physically
stir · awaken · galvanize · exhort · enthuse · invigorate · resonate · transform · move · rouse
instruct
Convey knowledge or orders
enlighten · inform · guidance · explain · impart · expound · illuminate · clarify · Sunday school · Bible study
- worshippraying, congregational prayer, adoration, praise God, evening prayer
- Christian ministryministry, evangelists, missionaries, discipleship, pastors
- Christian serviceministry, service, serving, serving others, deacons
- early churchapostles, early church, Church Fathers, apostolic fathers, Acts of the Apostles
- ministrypastoral care, teaching, chaplaincy, youth ministry, discipleship
- moral teachingsmoral lesson, moral story, moral tale, moral fable, moral teaching
preachingsinning
Committing moral wrongs
transgressing · misbehaving · backsliding · hypocrisy · doing wrong
preachinglistening
Attending to sound
dialoguing · conversing · discussing · questioning · inquiring
- preaching to the convertedPersuading those already agreeing
- street corner preaching
- street preachingReligious discourse in public
- preaching to deaf earsAdvising those who won't listen
- gospel preachingAnnouncing religious salvation message
- evangelical preachingChristian conversion-focused ministry