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The promised land: can it be shared with our communities?

From the July 1993 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Editor's note: This is the third in a series of three articles. The first article, in May, explored the spiritual meaning of the Promised Land; last month's article looked at how we as individuals can experience God's promise in our lives; and this final article will share how communities are being blessed by this vision of spiritual reality. Many of the observations in this series are also shared in Mr. Thorneloe's current lectures as a member of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship.

Throughout the Bible, as shown in the first two articles in this series, we find examples of individuals searching for and finding peace, harmony, joy, and wholeness—the promised land. They glimpsed what the Bible calls "the kingdom of heaven," "a new heaven and a new earth," "the city of our God." Whatever name we give to this object of mankind's deepest search, it is found as we recognize its entirely spiritual nature. Spirituality coincides with practicality. It is provable. Since God is ever present, so is His inviolable kingdom, and this is demonstrable.

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