Of Good Report

From deep in my heart comes gratitude for Christian Science Reading Rooms and for the unselfish individuals who staff them so that the healing comfort of Christian Science is readily available in communities all over the world. When my husband and I were in Nuremberg, Germany, a few years ago, I awoke one morning feeling very ill.

The following is an edited excerpt of the 2016 Annual Meeting Church Activities Workshop, held on June 4 in the Extension of The Mother Church and broadcast live online. To listen to the complete replay, visit christianscience.

In the fall of 2015 , Sixth Church of Christ, Scientist, Washington, DC, hosted an inspirational meeting in order to better understand the connection between The Christian Science Monitor and healing. At this event, we watched an insightful video produced by The Mother Church, “A conversation about The Christian Science Monitor with our church family,” and then discussed the questions asked in the video.

The Apostle Paul talks about the need to “put off the old man” so we can “put on the new man. ” He says, “Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him” ( Colossians 3:9, 10 ).

 I love the Christian Science periodicals! In fact, I take them with me wherever I go and read them at every opportunity—on the bus, the train, or standing in line—and they continually inspire me. I had the Christian Science Sentinel with me recently, and that day there were ample opportunities to read.

Christian Science opens to us the door to understanding verse 27 in the first chapter of Genesis: “God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. ” It explains that man is God’s idea—the spiritual image, or reflection, of God, Spirit.

 When I was still working , past retirement age, as a real estate agent, I had an opportunity to represent a client in the purchase of a condominium. The condo had been rented for many years by a very large family, and the family evidently had not been very good housekeepers.

One day some years ago , when I was serving as an attendant at a Christian Science Reading Room, the librarian informed the staff of a problem with our daily deliveries of The Christian Science Monitor. When she arrived at the Reading Room in the mornings, our copies of the Monitor were often missing, though she was assured by our delivery service that they had been delivered to our doorstep.

I recently had a sweet experience using JSH-Online. com.

How can we take a prayerful approach to considering where we truly find Church? We can start with the Bible. Christ Jesus said, “Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them” ( Matthew 18:20 ), and also, “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me” ( John 12:32 ).