Article August 5, 2013 Issue

I'm a member of The Mother Church!

Aiden

In the spring I applied to become a member of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts. A membership application to The Mother Church is available for anyone over the age of 12 from around the world to send in to the Church and then get approved by the Christian Science Board of Directors. To become a member, you agree to follow the six Tenets written by Mary Baker Eddy in her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (p. 497).

The tenet I feel I can connect with the most is the second one. It states: “We acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God. We acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in God’s image and likeness.” This means to me that we should always follow the one and only God, and that we’re His perfect, eternal reflection.

I had an opportunity to acknowledge God in my life two summers ago, when I was in Chautauqua, New York, for a week. I was there with my family, and I attended a sailing camp. I had sailed before, but it happened to be very windy on the lake this particular week, with 30 to 40 mph gusts. I was not used to this much wind, and it became very nerve-racking for me. I shared these concerns with my mom and she gave me a passage from the Bible to pray with. It says, “For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways” (Psalms 91:11). This helped me a lot, because it told me that whenever I was worried, I could know that God was taking care of me. When it got really rough on the water, I held on to this psalm, and I lost all feeling of nervousness. I was no longer afraid to go to the sailing camp. This was an example of God always being there for me, and it helped me gain more trust in Christian Science.

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