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Lord, take me to the wake-up church!
(A prayer)
I Need Your help on this one, Lord. And, I think, so do a lot of other people. Whether they call You God or Allah or The Supreme One or The Man—or something else. They want to worship You, their most lovable Parent. They want to feel You as close as a heartbeat. Right there with them, to comfort them, care for them, show them how to do things. To be like a wonderful friend or companion or wife or husband to them—only better. Light-years and light-years better.
But here's the hard part, Lord. And You know it already, because You know everything. These children of Yours (and I'm one of them) ... they love You and want to get to know You in this unfathomably intimate way. But they don't always want to do it in the thing they call "Church."
Now admittedly, Lord, people have gotten a little mixed up about what Your Church is. Sometimes they think of it as just a building. Or as a big, layered class structure. Or as a straitjacket of rules and old-fashioned ceremonies that keep them from being who they really are. "The thing that scares me most about church," someone said to me the other day, "is that I can't be myself there. If I go to church too much, maybe there won't be any of the real me left!"
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April 7, 1997 issue
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Spiritual medicine prescribed for healing
Beulah M. Roegge
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Who, me? Couldn't be!
Hazel Teresa Cook
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Why don't Christian Scientists use conventional medicine?
Linda Hitt Shaver
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BOOK REVIEW
Madelon Maupin Miles
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Being a healer
Carolyn E. Moulton
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A book that reveals your divine light
Nancy Ellett Staal
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Women of the '90s: Martha and Mary
Judith E. Cole
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The fruits of the Spirit
Beverly West Schmidt
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Mastering golf—and life!
by Kim Shippey
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Lord, take me to the wake-up church!
Mary Metzner Trammell
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"Right where the problem seems to be, right there, God is governing"
Patricia L. Duke
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The truths I learned in the Christian Science Sunday School—...
Jona M. Stutler
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Christian Science was presented to me over sixty years ago...
Ethel M. Russell
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with contributions from Richard Kutz, Pam Mendel, Betty Metzler, Zdenka Wippernova