First Church of Christ, Scientist celebrates its 100 years

September 23, 2008 at 10:51 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
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I am blessed, really blessed, to be a member of Tallahassee’s, First Church of Christ, Scientist. It has been a healing church during its 100 years, and still is.

Many have come and gone, have healed through God’s perfect light, and have been the blessed benefactors of all kinds of healings. This church continues to offer prayerful support to Tallahassee and the world. I have seen so much fruitage coming forth from this church, one of many in the worldwide Christian Science movement to bring back the lost healing power demonstrated by Jesus.

On October 18, in celebration of this Tallahassee’s church’s 100th anniversary, a free one hour public lecture and a free organ recital will be given at this church, which sits on the corner of Adam and Call streets in downtown Tallahassee, across from the city bus station and new federal courthouse. All are invited to listen to how Christian Science so successfully heals. There is so much documented evidence of this religion’s healings.

Kenneth in Tallahassee

What is Scientific in Life

September 23, 2008 at 10:32 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
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Something you find at the closing of every Christian Science church service the world over, is the reading of Mary Baker Eddy’s, Scientific Statement of Being. I grew up listening to this, repeating it, and praying with it. It is just lovely. This is how it goes:

“There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind, and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth. Matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal. Matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore, man is not material, he is spiritual.” (page 468 in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures).

This statement attacks any claim that matter can be anything to fear. That matter can harm, hurt, destroy, create or express. Spirit is the opposite of matter, and Spirit is God, the All-in-all. Therefore, matter is nothing. Mary Baker Eddy’s textbook of Christian Science, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, unfolds throughout, the meaning and relevance of the Scientific Statement of Being. It is the summary of that entire textbook of over 600 pages.

Although, I was healed on various occasions through praying using this passage by the discoverer, founder, demonstrator, and leader of Christian Science, I went through periods in which I felt that the Scientific Statement of Being was just nice words. This was until not too many years ago, I found how important it is, and how so many others were healed by this statement. Of all that Mrs. Eddy said, her divinely revealed Scientific Statement of Being is at the highest of her thinking. It is reality summed up in a few simple words, but wors that have to be seen from a spiritual starting-point in order for the message to be understood. That is why Mrs Eddy wrote so many pages. All these pages in her writings explain the Science of being and how it is expressed and demonstrated.

Every page of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures explains away matter, and sheds light on Spirit, good, God. The mortal senses would be offended by the statement of true being, and would attack anything opposing the supremacy of a material nature and kingdom. However, Genesis 1 in the Bible supports the claim in the Scientific Statement of Being that says, “All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation.” In Genesis first chapter, Mind, the Creator, made all and made all good. No evil or matter appears. All appears as an idea of God, an expression of infinite intelligence, or Mind. My two companions are the first chapter of Genesis and the Scientific Statement of Being. Genesis can only be understood spiritually, not materially.

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