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Church Services That Communicate

From the April 1976 issue of The Christian Science Journal


True communication is entirely spiritual, and it penetrates human consciousness more deeply and more lastingly than human speech ever can. Through Christian Science, the understanding of real communication, the divine Mind unfolding itself to its own ideas, becomes clear and demonstrable.

This truth has vital application in church work. What if each member of every Church of Christ, Scientist, determined to live so fully conscious of his own and others' Christliness that this elevated state of thought communicated itself to all whom his life touched? Think of the quality of a church service before and during which each member had endeavored to express nothing but the Christ!

We can refuse to take into church any critical, depressed, or hateful thoughts, and instead acknowledge only the healing presence of God's Word communicating itself to His own idea, man. "The Word was God," we read in the Bible. "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." John 1:1, 3;

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