"Where are you building your church?" This question was asked of a member of a church about to build—a branch Church of Christ, Scientist. The member pointed out the location. The questioner agreed it was a good one, accessible and pleasant, with opportunities to embrace and serve a needy community.
But the question lingered. "Where are you building your church?" That night, alerted by its quiet insistence, the Christian Scientist found herself reasoning: "After all, hasn't Christian Science taught us that Church is a divine idea, a spiritual idea of Truth and Love? Like all right, spiritual ideas, Church is included in the compound idea, man, the idea Christ Jesus exemplified."
Church, as it eternally exists in the all creative Mind, she reasoned, is divinely conceived, spiritually perpetuated. Church reveals its character and its purpose to human consciousness proportionably as we prayerfully prepare our thought to embrace it.
