Dear Friend,
Your letter concerning church issues touched me deeply. I, too, have been praying for our Church on bended knee. Our Mother Church and its branch churches and societies need our prayers! And they need honest, heartfelt prayer—prayer that doesn't outline, that has no agenda, that begins with no preconception as to how God will answer. This prayer places God in charge of His activity, with His Christ as the healing agent that unifies and governs every member.
Sometimes, as church members, when we're faced with what appear as overwhelming odds—whether inharmony, lack, or other challenges—it may seem that fear, evil, and human will rule the day. But in fact God, as unchanging Principle, is always ruling with absolute power and with the promise of the inevitability of good. If we will stay the course, our prayer will reveal the reality of divine control—and great blessings for our Church, our members, and our world will be realized in tangible, practical ways. This is the very basis of our theology.
