“I would love to know more about how to save a closing Christian Science church or society. There are only a few members left at this church, and it will be sold if something doesn’t happen quickly. I know this is not the only church or society in this position, and I think it is so sad for them to just go away. Does anyone have any suggestions?”
Phil:
Maybe the question is not how to save a particular church from closing, but to ask, “Should it be saved?” That may seem shocking to some. In most cases we would naturally pray for our church to succeed—for it to fulfill its definition of “elevating the race,” “rousing the dormant understanding,” and “healing” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 583). But when you have just a few members trying to keep a branch church or society afloat, they can end up spending all their time trying to keep the organizational mechanism going and have no time left to actually fulfill that definition.
