Deron Cloud, founder and pastor of the Soul Factory, called it the "unchurch". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2006] Reference
Was ever monkish work begun in more unchurch-like surroundings?. From Wordnik.com. [The Thrall of Leif the Lucky] Reference
Ultra-Lutherans must unchurch the Lutherans of Luther's lifetime, 25. From Wordnik.com. [American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics Including a Reply to the Plea of Rev. W. J. Mann] Reference
Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed. From Wordnik.com. [English Traits (1856)] Reference
In a word, this isolation is doing as much as any one thing can do to unchurch us, and it and our awakened claims to be Catholic and Apostolic cannot long stand together. From Wordnik.com. [Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists] Reference
Let us not reject and unchurch the twelve because one of them is a devil, nor say that they are all cheats and hypocrites because one of them was so; let those that are so bear the blame, and not those who, while they are undiscovered, incorporate with them. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference
He will come in a way of judgment, and that suddenly and surprisingly, upon impenitent churches and sinners; he will unchurch them, take away his gospel, his ministers, and his ordinances from them, and what will the churches or the angels of the churches do when the gospel is removed?. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)] Reference
But, upon Moses 'intercession, he said, "I have pardoned;" and, in token of that mercy, in this chapter he repeats and explains some of the laws concerning offerings, to show that he was reconciled to them, notwithstanding the severe dispensation they wee under, and would not unchurch them. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)] Reference
He does not unchurch or ostracise any other man. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation] Reference
Upon this, he justly determined to abandon them, and cut them off, to deprive them of their privileges, to unchurch and unpeople them; but, upon Christ's intercession, as of old upon that of Moses, he graciously gave them further time and further mercy; tried them, as it were, another year, by sending his apostles among them, to call them to repentance, and in Christ's name to offer them pardon, upon repentance. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference
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