congregational

基本解释

These kinds of churches, it's remarkable that the denomination I grew up in,although there's no meta-congregational organization that runs this, it's amazing how much alike they are.
这样的教会，很惊人的一点是，我从小加入的教派,虽然他们没有那种很大的集会组织，但他们都惊人地相似。
In New England, the Congregational Church was legally established; all residents had to contribute to its support.
在新英格兰，公理教会是被写入法律的，所有的居民必须捐助教会以供其维持。
Poetry became" congregational" lonely show, the audience left, the remaining relatives due to the face where the applause, this is now the current situation of poetry?
诗歌成了“堂会式”的寂寥表演，观众走光了，剩下亲朋碍于面子在那里鼓掌，这不就是如今诗坛的现状吗？
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Reporter Jerilyn Watson spoke with David Denoonsenior minister at the First Congregational Church of Evanston,Illinois,near Chicago.
What if every synagogue and mosque, church, temple, secular humanist society was involved in congregational exchanges the way that most of these institutions are now involved in some kind of service work?
如果每座犹太教会堂，穆斯林清真寺，基督教堂，佛教寺庙，世俗社会都参与到,公众的交流中，将会怎么样？,大多数机构正在以这种方式,参与某种服务工作中？
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"One of the great traditions that I really appreciate here at First Congregational is that we do an annual service of 'Nine Lessons and Carols,' which is in the old King's College tradition from England.

Bottom line, despite what Wikipedia says, small churches with a congregational polity should probably avoid corporation sole.
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