One year, in watching a particular football team make it to the Super Bowl, I realized better what it takes to be a real professional. I saw that consistency in always doing one's best, striving for a better performance, and being willing to cooperate with one's teammates are essential to success.
Christian Scientists around the world are a team—a vital team of thinking, praying individuals—united to relieve the sufferings of humanity. This great spiritually impelled movement keeps moving as each member consistently strives to demonstrate a growing understanding of God and man. Individual prayer and effort will always be at the heart of church work and progress. But church also means working together in love for common goals. Thus our Church serves mankind.
Individually we must look up from pondering self-centered interests to see the needs of mankind, to recognize that these needs can be met through Truth and Love, and to work and pray for the world.
