My approach to the study of the Lesson-Sermon is in an attitude of prayer—a prayer of both petition and affirmation. I humbly pray for self-knowledge that the gospel of my Way-shower and the inspiration of my Leader's life be told and retold and communicated through my own.
The lesson speaks to me individually, where I am in consciousness, at that particular point of experience in my demonstration of the truth of perfect God and perfect man.
The Lesson-Sermon is an expression of God speaking directly and individually to me through the prophets of the Old Testament with the magnitude and height of pure monotheism; through our great Exemplar, Christ Jesus, and his message of individual salvation; through Mrs. Eddy, the revelator of Truth, and the writer of the "little book" (Rev. 10:2) that unlocks the Scriptures.
