Christian Science teachers respond to Frequently Asked Questions that have come up at workshops on becoming a Christian Science practitioner.
Q: How do I address feelings of inadequacy in healing some challenges presented to me?
A: Feelings of inadequacy can creep in when the practitioner feels he or she has some great work of healing to do through a personal sense of ability. Christian Science is emphatically the Science of healing through the divine Mind, and not through human minds. Science and Health states: "The human mind has no power to kill or to cure, and it has no control over God's man. The divine Mind that made man maintains His own image and likeness" (p. 151). Jesus expressed remarkable power to heal disease and raise the dead, but he taught that these healings were not the result of his own personal power. He was doing what his Father led him to do. He said, "I can of mine own self do nothing" (John 5:30). Understanding the truth of being from a divine and not a personal perspective can bring healing in every case.
