Article December 27, 1999 Issue

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Q What are your church services like?

A The services include congregational singing, a vocal solo, organ or piano music, silent and collective prayer, the audible praying of the Lord's Prayer, Scriptural reading, and a collection. There is also a meeting on Wednesdays that includes readings from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, as well as testimonies of healing from the congregation.

The Sunday services are conducted by lay Readers. The two Readers read a Lesson-Sermon consisting of passages from the Bible and Science and Health. All services are open to the public.

Q Why don't you have ministers?

A This is a lay church in which every member has equal standing with God. With the Bible and Science and Health as their pastor, Christian Scientists turn to prayer and these two books for instruction, counsel, and healing.

Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, established the Church of Christ, Scientist, "to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing."

Manual of The Mother Church by Mary Baker Eddy

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