Why does caring for others matter, and how is it demonstrated?
Caring for others is an integral part of Christianity. It fulfills the law of Love. Just as we can’t take Christianity out of Christian Science, we cannot separate loving each other from our Cause. Mary Baker Eddy writes, “Having one God, one Mind, one consciousness,—which includes only His own nature,—and loving your neighbor as yourself, constitute Christian Science, which must demonstrate the nothingness of any other state or stage of being” (No and Yes, p. 38).
Having one God, understanding or fully realizing that there is just one Mind, allows us to see that we have no power of ourselves—only the power of God as His expression. As Christ Jesus said, “I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me” (John 5:30).
