Usually in preparation for its lecture season, a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, appoints a lecture committee. Ordinarily the purpose of such a committee is to do metaphysical work for the support of the lecture as well as to make the arrangements connected with it. Since the mission of a Christian Science lecture is to present the Christ, Truth, to all members of the community, a responsibility rests on each church member, as well as on the members of the committee, to assist by doing his own prayerful work.
It is important that every preparatory detail pertaining to the lecture be planned and executed as the result of prayer. We read in Proverbs (16:1), "The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord."
Because a church has followed a certain procedure which may have proved successful in the past, it does not mean that this method must be followed for the giving of subsequent lectures. As each member puts on the Mind of Christ, he reflects the freshness, vitality, wisdom, and inspiration that come from this Mind. Thus, he is enabled to lift the lecture out of mortal mind's conception of it as just another human event into its true place as the glorious heralding of the Christ, Truth, in human consciousness.
