Christian Science is a way of life. This way of living demands honesty, purity, simplicity, and unselfed love. It includes a ministry of healing, a system of ethics, and a logical and demonstrable explanation of cause and effect, God and man.
Christ Jesus spoke of himself as the way. He said (John 14:6), "I am the way, the truth, and the life," a statement that may mean simply that the Christly way of life is the one he came to reveal. A study of the Gospels shows that this way includes a ministry of healing, a code of ethics, and bestows upon mankind complete dominion over the so-called laws of nature, even over sin, sickness, and death. To adopt this way and walk in it is our mission in Christian Science.
The early Christians were courageous followers in the way. Some had actually seen the Master and come into immediate contact with his teaching. Others had witnessed the healing work of the apostles. A number no doubt had passed through the wilderness of human experience and entered the new heaven and new earth of which John bore witness in the book of Revelation.
