The word "congregational" refers to things that are related to or centered on a group of people who gather together for religious worship or public meetings, such as a congregation or community. Full definition
The question is not one of either pastoral care or social action, but: How can the two be organically related in the dynamics of congregational life in faithfulness to God, for whom love and justice are inseparable? (religion-online.org)
When I was in my late 20s I was installed as senior minister of First Congregational Church in Burlington, Vermont. (religion-online.org)
«Violence,» says René Girard, «is the heart and secret soul of the sacred, «5 yet its presence in congregational life in expressions other than Christ's crucifixion is frequently ignored.6 But the character of each of the three parishes examined here develops in relation to a specific, if symbolic, death, making a virtue of it and knitting its consequence into the patterned behavior of that church. (religion-online.org)