In his Sermon on the Mount, Christ Jesus marks out for us the path of universal salvation. His Beatitudes deal with the qualities of Christliness, which when understood as God-derived and lived bring infinite blessings: harmony, health, peace, an awakening to our eternal life in God.
There is no better place to develop Christly qualities than in branch Churches of Christ, Scientist. As we are willing to accept these Christly, redeeming ways of thinking, we awake to our original joyous freedom. We experience an ongoing spiritual resurrection. Mrs. Eddy, on page 11 of her Message to The Mother Church for, 1901. states, "To my sense the Sermon on the Mount, read each Sunday without comment and obeyed throughout the week, would be enough for Christian practice."
In our branch church family we are expected to build our lives and our church on the Rock, Christ, and the Christ-spirit that the understanding of God as Truth and Love impels. As we do this and are obedient to church bylaws and rules, using our individual talents in loving service, we grow in selflessness and are led to gradually abandon human will, pride, and stubborn opinions. How we respond to opportunities to be Christly determines our progress and the blessings we receive.
