Church work is a unique and stimulating activity contributing to individual and community progress. But we need to keep it in spiritual perspective. We need to distinguish between what we appear to be doing in church work from what we are really doing.
The most important activity in the world today—or any day—is the activity of the Christ, divine Truth, in human consciousness, and its effect on daily life. The Christ is the outshining truth that God, good, is All and that man is His image and likeness, as the Bible reveals.
The purpose of Christian Science and of its many church activities is to increase the understanding of the Christ and demonstrate its healing effect among men. For many individuals the purification of thought—the increase of spiritual awareness—may be a new way of life, an upward reach away from a materialistic background. For others the increase will be a deepening and broadening of what is already felt and known.
