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Again, If baptism be without the church, as a church, if it hath nothing to do in the constituting of a church; if it be not the door of entrance into the church, if it be no part of church-worship as such; then, although all the members of that church were baptized, yet the church is a church without water baptism.

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  1. noun A building for public, especially Christian worship.
  2. noun The company of all Christians regarded as a spiritual body.
  3. noun A specified Christian denomination: the Presbyterian Church.
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  • However his ambition may have been set upon an epic crown, his zeal for what he calls the church was an equal passion, nay had, in his judgment, a paramount claim upon him, He is a zealot among the zealots; his cause is the cause of God; and the sword of the Independents is the sword of the Lord and of Gideon. —  Milton
  • The icons and happenings he created for his church were his artwork - a mixture of Dadaist and other modern art influences. —  news | WM | http://www.starnewsonline.com
  • And some corners of what we call the church are not doing Kingdom work at all. —  GoodWordEditing.com
  • During the trial, de Jesus 'representatives argued that neither he nor the church were as rich as Torres' team claimed, especially since the value of many of the properties have fallen in the past two years. —  Religion News Blog
  • They like Protestants, and consider Martin Luther and other reformers to have been inspired by God, but consider their church was a restoration of the same church that Christ set up on the earth, not a protest against the catholic church or simply an attempt to set up a church they felt was closer to what Christ wanted. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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  1. Middle English chirche, from Old English cirice, ultimately from Medieval Greek kūrikon, from Late Greek kūriakon (dōma), the Lord's (house), neuter of Greek kūriakos, of the lord, from kūrios, lord; see keuə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English chirche, cherche, churche, also chireche, etc. (North. Middle English kirke, later Scots kirk, after Scandinavian), from Anglo-Saxon circe, cyrce, cirice, cyrice = Old Saxon kirika, kerika = OFries. kerke, tzcrke = Dutch kerk = Middle Low German kerke, Low German kerke, karke = Old High German chirihha, chircha, also chilihha, chilcha, Middle High German G. kirche, dial. chilche, = Icelandic kirkja = Swedish kyrka = Danish kirke (cf. Middle Latin kyrica, kyrrica, kirrika, kirrica, kirchia, in Middle High German and Middle Low German glosses), a church (building), the church (of believers), borrowed, prob. through an unrecorded Gothic (Moesogothic) *kyreika, from LGr. κυριακόν, a church (later κυριακή, feminine, a church, earlier (sc. ήμέρα) the Lord's day), literally (sc. δώμα) the Lord's house, neuter of κυριακός, belonging to the Lord (in common Greek ‘belonging to a lord or master’), from κύριος, the Lord, a particular application in ecclesiastical writers of the common Greek κύριος, lord, master, guardian, properly adjective κύριος, having power or authority, dominant (cf. κῦρος (neuter), might, power, authority), from * κῦρος (= Sanskrit çūra, strong, a hero, = Zend çūra, strong), from √* κυ, swell (in κύειν, κυεῖν, be pregnant, έγκυος (= Latin incien(t-)s), pregnant, κῦμα, a (swelling) wave (see cyme), etc.), = Sanskrit çū, swell, grow.
  2. from Middle English chirchen, from chirche: see church, n.
 

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