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Class continues to change my life
One of the most powerful , positive forces for change in my spiritual progress in Christian Science has been Primary class instruction, with the annual students’ association meetings and the ongoing student-teacher relationship. These Manual-provided activities have given me an anchor, a focus, a discipline, a structure, and a support in my life.
There came a time in my mid-20s when I deeply desired to know more about God, man, the Bible, and how to heal myself and others. I had a lot of questions about life and its meaning and where I fit in. I knew that this yearning could be satisfied through Primary class instruction—and I wasn’t disappointed. I found that my questions were answered, and I came home with a new spiritual vision of life. The time of class instruction turned my thought squarely in the right direction—toward Spirit and a life of prayer and healing.
Class provided a sanctuary from the cares of daily life in which to probe, ponder, prove, examine, listen, and yield to the grand spiritual truths of divine Science, the Word of God, found in the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, which were systematically unfolded throughout the class period. It was a time of great inspiration, but it was also a time for humble willingness to relinquish all in my thought that did not conform to obedience to that Word—a time for laying off the false sense of who I was and putting on the true.
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March 28, 2011 issue
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Letters
J. Kelly Lester, Debra Skelton, Charlotte Miller, Susan J. Ehart, Mike Davis
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I want to take that class!
Ingrid Peschke, Managing Editor
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A heavenly ministry
Laura Figueroa
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Mary Baker Eddy honored in Lynn ceremony
Jeff Ward-Bailey
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Education reform in tough economic times
Evan Mehlenbacher
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‘Fear not’
By Brian Hall
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Prayer aboard my VW bus
By Mark Patterson
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Pray
Zoe
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Your questions about Church
John Kohler, Dawn-Marie Cornett
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An educator’s thoughts on Christian Science class instruction
By Don Griffith
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Christian Science class instruction—A commitment to God and growing spiritually
Ingrid Peschke with contributions from Tom Black, C.S.B., Olga Chaffee, C.S.B., Christiane West Little, C.S.B.
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What is class all about?
By Chris Orndorff
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Finding my teacher—How I prayed for direction
By Brad Brubaker
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Increased reliance on God
By Lillian McCall Laggart
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Class continues to change my life
By Alice Moseley
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From Iraq to the US— A story of association travel
By Jan Kielpinski
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What’s in a name?
By Andie Raffles
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‘At once, I turned to God’
Sallie Carlson
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Hospitality opens the way to healing
Kay Dalessandro
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Freed from excessive menopausal bleeding
Priscilla Tedesco
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Turn here
The Editors