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lay preacher

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

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.