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The following is an edited excerpt of the 2016 Annual Meeting Church Activities Workshop, held on June 4 in the Extension of The Mother Church and broadcast live online. To listen to the complete replay, visit christianscience.

Most Christian Science practitioners have probably had a patient say something like: “Well, I’ve read the Bible Lesson and I’ve looked up the citations you gave me from the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy. Mentally I feel really inspired, but the body has not changed.

What is the “stuff” we’re made of? The answer is often sought in analyzing the structures of matter—the elementary particles, atoms, molecules, compounds, and mixtures that obey physical laws. Even our consciousness has been described by scientific opinion and popular assumption as a highly evolved outcome of inanimate matter.

For years I wondered about the meaning of the first beatitude—“Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” ( Matthew 5:3 ). Why is being poor in spirit such a blessed state? Finally I allowed myself to take a more spiritual approach to the words.

Life, Truth and Love the pattern make, Christ is the perfect heir; The clouds of sense roll back, and show The form divinely fair.   (Mary Alice Dayton, Christian Science Hymnal , No.

Did you know Mary Baker Eddy revised the Church Manual more than any other of her books besides Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures? She writes about its By-Laws in part as follows: “They were impelled by a power not one’s own …. They sprang from necessity, the logic of events,—from the immediate demand for them as a help that must be supplied to maintain the dignity and defense of our Cause; …” ( Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, p.

The term rain check usually refers to a ticket issued in case a baseball game or other event is canceled because of rain. It can also have another meaning, when we look out the window to see if it’s raining.

Paul reminds us in Galatians 3:28 that we are all one in Christ, acknowledging the spiritual identity of man.   I had a pivotal experience several years ago while serving as a Christian Science nurse at a Christian Science nursing facility in the United States.

The author shares how prayer helped his friend find meaningful work.

My church is a healing church. If you’ve grown up as a Christian Scientist, you may have heard this phrase enough times to tune it out.