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a crowd that came for salvation and stayed for the gossip in the parking lot
means a group of people gathered together, especially an assembly of worshippers met for religious service.
from From Latin congregatio, a noun built from congregare 'to flock together' — and there's a barnyard hiding inside it: con- 'together' plus grex, gregis 'flock, herd.' The same grex grazes through 'gregarious,' 'segregate,' and 'aggregate.' So a congregation is, quite literally, a flocking-together — sheep imagery the Church was happy to keep, shepherd and all. It arrived in English via Old French in the medieval period as a churchly word for the assembled faithful.
- collective noun
- a group of alligators is also a congregation
- from latin
- means to flock together, like sheep
- silent power
- can hire, fire, and vote out a pastor
- acoustic design
- old churches built to amplify a single voice
lakewood church houston — megachurch pastored by joel osteen with approximately 45,000 weekly attendees