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Church and Today's World

From the December 1970 issue of The Christian Science Journal


In these times, when many people are turning to Eastern philosophies, the occult, and the blatantly fantastic in their search for deeper meaning's to life and for explanations of existence, the question is often asked: Does the Church, which is based upon the teachings of Christ Jesus, still have a contribution to make to the well-being and progress of the modern world? Thoughtful consideration of the spiritual origin, nature, and past accomplishments of this divinely inspired institution must lead to the conclusion that it does.

To the degree that it has been built on the revelation of God as the universal Father and of man as God's son, as demonstrated by Christ Jesus, the Christian Church has been a strengthening, guiding, spiritualizing power in the community, and its divine message ensures that in proportion as it is humanly discerned as present and operative it must continue to exert a beneficent influence in mankind's affairs in the twentieth and ensuing centuries.

Christian Science shows that Church in its spiritual meaning is an all-inclusive idea. It is universal, embracing the identity of every individual God-created being, the sum total of all that really exists as the expression of infinite Mind. Mrs. Eddy defines the spiritual idea "Church" as "the structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle." Science and Health, p. 583

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