A Church for the whole world

A CONTINUING SERIES ON HOW CHURCH IS ACTIVE IN PEOPLE'S LIVES

By Olaf Dietz

I Became A Member of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, when I was a teenager. But, growing up in Germany, I felt far away from The Mother Church. I suppose I saw it as a building, or a congregation, in an American city.

In many respects, I think that impression stayed with me through my adolescence and even into adulthood—until last year, when the Annual Meeting of The Mother Church was held in Berlin, as well as in Boston, and broadcast on the World Wide Web.

Attending that meeting in Berlin shifted my understanding of what The First Church of Christ, Scientist, really is. I began to take part in the "Heart to Heart" conference calls sponsored by The Mother Church. In these calls, people from all over the world come together and share how they are praying and sharing Mary Baker Eddy's book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures with other people. These calls continued to expand my concept of what Church could be—something beyond a geographic location, something that involves feeling, understanding, and action on my part.

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