Article December 28, 1992 Issue

Prayer for our church

Are you wondering how you can contribute to healing in your church?

Rosalie B. Treworgy

When I was a new, inexperienced member of a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, I wanted to know more about how to pray for my church. If our executive board suggested that all the members pray for the Sunday School, I hardly knew where to start. I would think: "Dear God, please help our Sunday School." Well, that was a legitimate prayer of petition to God with a right desire behind it. However, it was not an example of prayer that's based on an actual understanding of God.

Gradually I learned to pray a different kind of prayer, affirming the spiritual fact that God is always upholding His perfect, spiritual idea, Church, and denying that anything ungodlike could be a part of it.

A good starting place for prayer for our branch church or for The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, is the description of Church given in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. Part of that description reads, "The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle."

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