Down the street from my home is a small, 100-plus-year-old village church with wood shingles weathered to a Cape Cod gray. Not long ago, it was boarded up and hoisted off its crumbling stone foundation. Masons worked to rebuild the base so that the carpenters could reattach the historical superstructure. Once again, it’s open for worship and community events.
A solid underpinning is essential for any church to continue to stand. But where cement and stone fail over time, a spiritual foundation endures. In fact, the founder of Christianity didn’t leave behind any material structures as evidence of a substantial religion. It was simply his teaching, confirmed by practical examples, that constituted his church building. “Jesus established his church and maintained his mission on a spiritual foundation of Christ-healing” (Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 136).
This is what every Christian Science church, society, or group around the world rests on—Christ-healing. Every testimony offered at Wednesday meetings and in our publications reinforces that spiritual base and makes for an unshakable Church, no matter what adversity comes our way, whether external storms of weather or internal storms of opinion.
