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The Christian Science Church – a part of the Canberra community. Members share testimonies and talk about their lives as Christian Scientists.
This article, Why I Chose Christian Science, is by Rod who is a member of the Christian Science Church in Canberra. He shares what following the teachings of Christian Science has meant to him.
When people ask me why I chose Christian Science and why I stay with it. My response is always: Because it works!
Those already exposed to, or involved with, Christian Science will understand this response. Let me explain.
Over the last seven years I have had just one headache. That is one headache in seven years. Prior to taking up Christian Science I had had a headache every day for more than a decade. After years of consulting with doctors I had no permanent solution to this problem. For more than ten years I consumed more than the recommended dose of pain killers every single day. Try as I might I was unable to break this cycle. I was also on a range of other medications for other medically diagnosed conditions.
When I decided to take up the study of Christian Science I gave up the pills and decided to rely on prayer for a solution. Since taking this stand I haven’t needed to resort to painkillers and I haven’t had a need for any medication at all in seven years. In this time I have only had one minor headache. I am attributing this solely to my greater understanding and acceptance of Christian Science. This is the single factor I can pinpoint in this turn around.
I recommend Mary Baker Eddy’s book, Science and Health with key to the Scriptures, to anyone wishing to make fundamental changes in their life. It is not an ‘easy read’ but is definitely life changing.
On Thursday 19 November a Thanksgiving Service was held by the members of the Christian Science Church in Canberra. Many in the congregation gave thanks for the good in their lives:
Very recently I was listening to a Christian Science lecture in which the speaker outlined a wonderful example of problem solving through prayer, and then went on to share her awe at the overwhelming abundance of the divine solution.
This brought vividly to my mind the first time I experienced this divine ‘extra’ in an answer to my prayer. I was staying alone in an absent friend’s home when over several days I found myself feeling sicker and sicker and weaker and worrying about how I was to get home.
Finally, I looked in a Christian Science Journal for the name and number of a local Christian Science practitioner to help me through prayer. She so readily and lovingly took me under her spiritual wing. I don’t remember now whether the healing took 2 or 3 days but completely healed I certainly was, for which I felt much gratitude, but not surprise, because new as I was to Christian Science, I’d already learned enough to know God’s readiness and love and power were always there. The dazzling remembrance that sprang to my mind when His abundant good was illustrated in the lecture was my trip home a day later. When I presented myself at the airport the clerk said – completely out of the blue – that my seat had been up graded to first class!
Something which had, and has, never happened to me before or since.
A God … abundant in loving kindness and truth (Exodus 34: 6).
This testimony was contributed by FM of Canberra.
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