Can you imagine your church services being held without any mental walls to separate you from the rest of the people in the community? Can you imagine the influence of hymn singing, the solo, and the reading of the Lesson-SermonChristian Science Quarterly Lesson-Sermon; going out for all to feel?
Further, instead of your branch Church of Christ, Scientist, being thought of as a building located on a specific lot on a specific street, can you see it as representing a spiritual power—the power of Truth— embracing the community? Actually everybody in your town is included in Church. You have a right to see each one as spiritual, the manifestation of Mind, understanding God and His Christ, free of medical theories, sensual attractions, beliefs of life in matter, and conflicting views of many minds.
"How can it be done?" someone may ask. By lifting your concept of what Church is. It's not a building on a certain street. It's a healing idea of Principle at work in your community. If you start looking upon Church in this way, you will put the idea into operation, and it will start being manifested more and more as embracing your community.
