How are we supporting the periodical publications of our church? Buying them? Reading them? Writing for them? Distributing them? Excellent!
But how do we do these things? Simply doing these things may in fact be achieving little, because we may be identifying ourselves to a considerable extent with limited mortality having necessarily limited objectives, that is, to support a limited concept we call church. It is when these activities become God-centered rather than just humanly directed that they correspondingly become more inspired and more fruitful.
The material view says, for instance, that Christian churches are restricting their ministry and that God's Word needs immediate support. But we do not support God. He supports us. Similarly, Church does not depend on us for support; "Church"—in Mrs. Eddy's words "the structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle" Science and Health, p. 583;—supports us. And we do not support God's nature; we express it.
