All 15 Uses
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- The church had been built piece by piece, one dollar at a time, by thedeacons and stout men in the congregation.†
Chpt 13 *congregation = people who worship together in the same building
- The ladies in the choir all dressed in the same brilliant pink, and they numbered about half of the congregation.†
Chpt 13
- The change that took place in Miss Lucy during the service was a symbol of the whole congregation.†
Chpt 13
- The congregation was not stoic and never silent.†
Chpt 13
- With this the congregation peaked, "Hallelujah ....Come on ....Let's hear it!†
Chpt 13
- Before Mount Zion, with its tiny black congregation, I had always known the only place my restless generation could be moved or get high was at a rock concert.†
Chpt 13
- The Rev preached and shouted and preached some more to his black-and-white congregation.†
Chpt 17
- It was people like Mary Elizabeth, my new brothers, the Winklers, the rugged men at the sawmill, Homer Davenport, and the shouting happy congregation at Mount Zion Baptist Church who had made me see myself and my country in a different way.†
Chpt 18
- "Tell it like it is, now, brother," shouted the congregation.†
Chpt 18
- The whole congregation erupted in "A-mans" and "Bless the Lauds."†
Chpt 18
- His voice had a supernatural and otherworldly ring to it as he talked about chanting and told the large congregation, "The here and now is where all the goodies and magic and the action's at.†
Chpt 20
- Tennessee state law did not require ordination for a person to perform marriages if he had a congregation, so Stephen married those who wanted him to during these long sunlit services.†
Chpt 20
- The couple stood in front of the congregation in the field, dressed in their cleanest jeans and white peasant shirts.†
Chpt 20
- Most of his followers were not married when they arrived, but when Stephen found out he could act as a minister since he had a congregation, he married couple after couple, and even joined a few marriages between already married couples—all four people to each other, considered the heaviest trip for burying your ego and staying above attachments.†
Chpt 20
- I remember an evangelist who walked up to a man in the congregation one night, and the man had a big ol' frown on his face.†
Chpt 28
Definitions:
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(1)
(congregation as in: the congregation voted) people who worship together in the same building
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, congregation can reference any group of people, animals, or things collected together.