Church vs. Religion — What's the Difference?

A building for public, especially Christian worship.

Religion is a social-cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements; however, there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.Different religions may or may not contain various elements ranging from the divine, sacred things, faith, a supernatural being or supernatural beings or "some sort of ultimacy and transcendence that will provide norms and power for the rest of life". Religious practices may include rituals, sermons, commemoration or veneration (of deities and/or saints), sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trances, initiations, funerary services, matrimonial services, meditation, prayer, music, art, dance, public service, or other aspects of human culture.

The company of all Christians regarded as a spiritual body.

The belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers, regarded as creating and governing the universe

A specified Christian denomination

A particular variety of such belief, especially when organized into a system of doctrine and practice

A congregation.

A set of beliefs, values, and practices based on the teachings of a spiritual leader.

Public divine worship in a church; a religious service

The life or condition of a person in a religious order

The clerical profession; clergy.

A cause, principle, or activity pursued with zeal or conscientious devotion

Ecclesiastical power as distinguished from the secular

(uncountable) Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief.

To conduct a church service for, especially to perform a religious service for (a woman after childbirth).

(countable) A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it.

Of or relating to the church; ecclesiastical.

(uncountable) The way of life committed to by monks and nuns.

(countable) A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place.

Rituals and actions associated with religious beliefs, but considered apart from them.

Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity; Christendom.

(countable) Any practice to which someone or some group is seriously devoted.

(countable) A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general.

Faithfulness to a given principle; conscientiousness.

(countable) A particular denomination of Christianity.

Engage in religious practice.

Christian worship held at a church; service.

Indoctrinate into a specific religion.

Organized religion in general or a specific religion considered as a political institution.

To make sacred or symbolic; sanctify.

Any religious group.

The outward act or form by which men indicate their recognition of the existence of a god or of gods having power over their destiny, to whom obedience, service, and honor are due; the feeling or expression of human love, fear, or awe of some superhuman and overruling power, whether by profession of belief, by observance of rites and ceremonies, or by the conduct of life; a system of faith and worship; a manifestation of piety; as, ethical religions; monotheistic religions; natural religion; revealed religion; the religion of the Jews; the religion of idol worshipers.

Assembly.

Specifically, conformity in faith and life to the precepts inculcated in the Bible, respecting the conduct of life and duty toward God and man; the Christian faith and practice.

To conduct a religious service for (a woman after childbirth, or a newly married couple).

A monastic or religious order subject to a regulated mode of life; the religious state; as, to enter religion.

(transitive) To educate someone religiously, as in in a church.

Strictness of fidelity in conforming to any practice, as if it were an enjoined rule of conduct.

(slang) Expressing strong agreement.

A strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny;

A building set apart for Christian worship.

Institution to express belief in a divine power;

A Jewish or heathen temple.

A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together.

A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the Presbyterian church.

The collective body of Christians.

Any body of worshipers; as, the Jewish church; the church of Brahm.

The aggregate of religious influences in a community; ecclesiastical influence, authority, etc.; as, to array the power of the church against some moral evil.

To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women.

One of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship

A place for public (especially Christian) worship;

A service conducted in a church;

The body of people who attend or belong to a particular local church;

Perform a special church rite or service for;