“Everyone is searching for God . . . whether they know it or not.”
I go to church in a city near where I live. And the comment above was made by a Sunday School student who had been invited to share thoughts about the updating of our church’s Christian Science Reading Room. Our membership had been thinking through both the concept of a Reading Room as described in the Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy, and the physical expression of the Reading Room in today’s world. After many meetings, we had still been talking in circles about how best to attract visitors. We felt a little stuck and needed a breakthrough. It was then that we thought of involving our Sunday School students in the ongoing discussion.
This student’s statement above about everyone searching for God came with this explanation: Everyone is looking for health, satisfaction, safety, love, etc. Christian Scientists know that all those things are found in God. So we know that people are actually searching for God; they just might not realize it.
