As we walked to our car one morning after teaching in the Christian Science Sunday School, someone who had attended the church called out to us: "We enjoyed visiting your church. The service was lovely and lively." Later that day I recalled the cheery comment, and it urged this question: Isn't it important that all activities of our branch Church of Christ, Scientist, should evidence the qualities of divine Life?
Church duties should be undertaken with lively interest. Each duty should be viewed and carried out in terms of freshness, unselfish purpose, wholehearted dedication. Then we can certainly expect that it will generate blessings for individuals and for the community. Church duties are our opportunities for actively expressing love in witness of the presence of all-acting, divine Love itself.
Where there is need for progress in our churches and for greater community response to what Christian Science offers—showing how Christ Jesus' teachings can be practiced—what can members do? The first step is to discern more clearly what Church means from the standpoint of divine reality as revealed in this Science.
