Inquiries are frequently received from executive boards of branches of The Mother Church as to the procedure followed in interviewing local applicants for membership in The Mother Church.
Although due care is exercised by the local examining committee to determine the sincerity and undivided allegiance to Christian Science of each applicant and his readiness for church membership in accordance with the simple requirements of Article IV of the Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy, every effort is also made to have the applicant feel at ease during the interview, which is conducted in an atmosphere of love and understanding. Such interviews should never be an ordeal for the applicant. Their purpose is to ascertain his readiness for membership and to afford an opportunity to call his attention to certain aspects of Christian Science and its church organization with which each individual seeking this progressive step should be familiar. Such interviews are designed to encourage—never to deter—those who have been healed or otherwise benefited by Christian Science and are regular church attendants to become active church members.
A detailed outline of the procedure followed by the local examining committee of The Mother Church is available to the executive board of any branch of The Mother Church upon written request from its clerk to Gordon V. Comer, Clerk, 107 Falmouth Street, Boston 15, Massachusetts.
