LIKE A LOT OF PEOPLE, I SPENT YEARS TRYING OUT churches. Growing up in a traditional Protestant denomination gave me a wonderful foundation in church community and in the teachings of basic Christian theology. My questions, though, eventually led me to explore everything from various Protestant traditions to evangelical tent revivals to agnosticism to Eastern philosophy, and finally, to landing on my true spiritual and church home—Christian Science. And what did I find so compelling about this Church? In part, how the Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, defines what real Church is all about: "The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.
"The Church is that institution, which affords proof of its utility and is found elevating the race, rousing the dormant understanding from material beliefs to the apprehension of spiritual ideas and the demonstration of divine Science, thereby casting out devils, or error, and healing the sick." Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 583.
I had found a church of healers! A church alive with a moment-by-moment mission to experience, and to help others experience, God's infinite goodness, right here, right now.
