Three months after Moses led the children of Israel across the Red Sea, God told him to say to them, "If ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, . . . ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests." Ex. 19:5, 6 This is mentioned again in Revelation where John refers to Jesus Christ as "him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God." Rev. 1:5, 6
Occasionally when important matters are to be decided by a church membership, or when an election for church offices is to be held, someone in the membership has the attitude of being close enough to God to be absolutely directed as to what should be done or who should be elected. When such an individual manages to circulate one of these "right" decisions, the remainder of the membership is given the choice of following the so-called guidance or voting in opposition to God. Such behavior is nothing short of mental malpractice.
The practice of Christian Science enables one to realize his relationship to God as his own Mind, to commune with that Mind and be guided by it. Malpractice undermines that ability and causes one to believe that he must lean on another. Right practice inspires individuals to understand God as their intelligence, their source of wisdom, the truth of their being. The propagation of the belief that one person can be an intermediary between God and anyone, wherever fostered, opposes individual growth in Christian Science.
