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n. (context religion English)A person who is not ordained but is appointed to lead church services in a religious denomination.
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Lay preacher is a preacher or a religious proclaimer who is not a formally ordained cleric. Lay preaching varies in importance between religions and their sects.
Movements which encourage lay preachership- Awakening (Lutheran movement)
- Methodist local preacher
- Lay speaker (United Methodist Church)
- Lay reader (Anglican communion)
Usage examples of "lay preacher".
On another reef a lay preacher in the Church of the Star glanced at his watch, then at the sky.
In the Adirondack woods is a wage-earner and lay preacher in the lumber-camps who is of noble character and deeply religious.
She made a point of positioning herself behind Horace as they sat, listening to the lay preacher reading the first lesson.
The wordless choir, with its eternal bridge-passage straight out of the compositions of Dmitri Tiomkin, diminished behind them, and the voice of the lay preacher came roaring back through to them over the fading, characterless music.