Branch Church News
More than once I have walked into a Christian Science church service with a problem and walked out with a solution. So this year, when I wasn’t feeling well prior to a Sunday service, I didn’t hesitate about going to the service expecting to be healed.
The Summit helped participants evaluate what is mandated and what is traditional in how we model our churches and their activities. Best of all, the underlying theme focused on looking at what we are doing in order to bring the freshness of Spirit to all that we do in and for church—keeping it all “abreast of the times” ( Church Manual, p.
It is amazing to ponder the tremendous growth of Christianity from just one man, Christ Jesus, to the more than two billion Christians today. What caused the early Christian church to multiply in such numbers? I have found in the Bible a solid foundation for the Church’s growth and aliveness that has been very helpful in praying about our Church today.
In 2001, the members of our church , First Church of Christ, Scientist, Cleveland, voted to sell our large edifice built in 1930–31. After extensive research, it had become apparent that the cost of work required to maintain the building in proper repair was well beyond what our membership could sustain.
I've come to understand that our church’s financial needs are not dependent on each member or their savings accounts. Praying to know that supply is coming directly from God, divine Principle, awakens our “.
In August and September 2010, Christian Scientists in Africa participated in TMC Youth Spiritual Activist Summits in Ghana and Nigeria. Here are some of the participants’ thoughts after attending the summits.
I've often laughingly said that a number of years ago God caused me to be a Christian Science nurse, so I’d be a better branch church member! At one time, I was such a hotheaded church member that I walked out fairly often on Wednesday evening testimony meetings. Not because I heard objectionable testimonies—noooo.
Would you like to be part of a church that is flexible, inclusive, approving, happy, and trying new things? Then try this: Take possession of your church experience—more consciously be the church you’d like to be part of. You’re probably used to the responsibility and practice of taking possession of your thoughts and your body.
“Church Alive” is the perfect description of the branch church my husband and I belong to in St. Louis, Missouri.
Upon reading the articles on Church in the October 2010 issue of the Journal, I was so moved that I felt impelled to share an experience that showed the power of the spiritual understanding of Church in my own life. Years ago, while I was teaching the youngest Sunday School class, there had been some difficulties concerning child behavior.