Editorial March 18, 2019 Issue

Keeping Church large

Keith Wommack

A touching note handed to me recently stated, “What if someone who came to your church was healed, transformed, joyful? This is what is causing smaller Christian Science churches to stay in business, to hope. We are aching to carry on.”

Today, members of organized religions are earnestly praying for new attendees and reinforcements in their work. And while it seems a pervading sense of desperation is burdening many faith groups, it’s also prevalent in civic organizations.

Why are organizations struggling? Organization in its best sense represents order, unity, and design—qualities rooted in the goodness of divine Principle, or God. When human organizations dedicated to human progress and healing are undermined or sidelined, an opposite to God appears to exist and have influence. Opposition to good—what is termed evil—sows a wholesale distrust of these organizations and a reluctance to actively participate in them.

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