Sunday Services

Our Sunday service lasts one hour. It includes readings from the Bible 

and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, hymns, and a solo.

All are welcome to attend.

Two "Readers", elected by and from the church membership, 

conduct the services. One reads from the King James Version of the Bible, 

and the other reads from the Christian Science textbook, 

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, which 

helps explain the spiritual meaning of Bible passages.

In Christian Science churches throughout the world, the subject 

and readings for each week's Lesson-Sermon are the same. The citations 

can be found in the Christian Science Quarterly, available at any 

Christian Science Reading Room.

Order of Sunday Services

 

Hymn

Scriptural Selection    |    Reader

Silent Prayer

The Lord's Prayer with its spiritual

     interpretation    |    Congregation and First Reader alternate

Hymn

Notices

Solo

Explantory Note    |    The Bible and the Christian Science textbook 

     are our only preachers.  We shall now read Scriptural texts, 

     and their correlative passages from our denominational textbook; 

     these comprise our sermon.  The canonical writings, together with 

     the word of our textbook, corroborating and explaining the Bible 

     texts in their spiritual import and application to all ages, past, 

     present, and future, constitute a sermon undivorced from truth, 

     uncontaminated and unfettered by human hypotheses, and 

     divinely authorized.

Subject of Lesson-Sermon, and

     reading of the Golden Text    |    First Reader

Responsive Reading    |    First Reader and Congregation alternate

Lesson-Sermon    |    First and Second Readers

Collection

Hymn

"The scientific statement of being," and the correlative 

     Scripture according to I John 3:1-3    |    Reader

    

     There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter.  

     All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is 

     All-in-all.  Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal 

     and temporal.  Spirit is God, and man is His image and 

     likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual.            

                                    --- Science and Health, p. 468:9-15

 

and the correlative Scripture:

 

     Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed 

     upon us, that we should be called the sons of God:  therefore 

     the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.  

     Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet 

     appear what we shall be:  but we know that, when he shall 

     appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.  

     And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself,  

     even as he is pure.                                --- I John 3:1-3

 

Benediction

 

A slightly different order is followed for Communion services, which are held 

in branch churches the second Sunday of January and July.

Click here to hear the Christian Science Weekly Lesson-Sermon from the 

Mother Church, online. This broadcast is available every Sunday.  

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Sunday School

Sunday School, for children younger than age 20, coincides with the 

Sunday Service and lasts one hour. Child care is provided free of charge, 

under the care and supervision of experienced adults. Infants and children

too young to attend Sunday School are lovingly cared for, and may be 

brought to the Children's Room before the start of the Sunday service.

Click here to find a Sunday School near you.

Wednesday Meetings

Everyone is welcome to attend our one-hour Wednesday evening 

testimony meetings.  Testimony meetings include readings from the 

Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures that 

speak to a current issue or need in the community or world. Following 

the reading, the congregation is invited to share experiences of spiritual 

healing or insight gained from prayer and the study of Christian Science. 

Child care is provided free of charge, under the care and supervision 

of experienced adults. Infants and children too young to attend the service 

are lovingly cared for, and may be brought to the Children's Room before 

the start of the Wednesday meeting.

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