Exploring in depth what Christian Science is and how it heals.
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When branch church members help give a Christian Science lecture, they provide spiritual ideas to a community—ideas that have practical results. Such a lecture illustrates fundamental metaphysical truths that settle over an audience with the sweet fragrance of spiritual goodness.
Consider a sick person who has become disillusioned with orthodox medical approaches to healing. This individual may have heard of apparently successful healings through some other means.
The Christian Science practitioner has the great and fundamental responsibility to recognize God's ability to heal the case at hand. Mrs.
For twelve years a woman suffered with a hemorrhage. Efforts to gain relief through reliance upon traditional methods of healing failed.
A Christian Science nurse was preparing a room at a sanatorium for the arrival of an emergency case. She asked herself, What is most needed at this moment? The answer came: To hold firmly to the fact of man's innate perfection.
What is God to you? Words in response to this question can be concise or voluminous, calculated or emotional, precise or vague. But it is not so much the words we say or think that actually tell of our concept of God.
If you ever did, you already know. If not, you can (1) observe, (2) take an old flyer's word for it, or (3) even as Benjamin Franklin did, go fly one and find out for yourself that kites take off against the wind, not with it! Of course, the aerodynamics of kite flying are of no significance if you're mentally content to just breeze along with the breeze of material, mortal thinking; with the general belief that substance, intelligence, even life itself, are in matter.
Jonah was the prophet who ran away from God. Told to preach against Nineveh, he promptly took ship in another direction.
A friend once asked me whether I would still want children if I had it to do over again. For me, the joys certainly outweigh the problems.
There is a sure way out of limitation and discord. We need not be resigned to sickness, sinful tendencies, or discordant relationships.