Spiritual Answers for Today’s Questions
A lecture series beginning September 23rd with events occurring through Spring of 2024
Our lectures are designed to embrace our community and shine a light on how to find spiritually-based answers to today’s difficult challenges. You’re warmly invited to attend these free, public talks in Central Illinois given in-person by practitioners of Christian Science.
Our 2023/2024 Winter-Spring Lecture Series
Saturday, April 13, 2024 at 3:00pm
Saturday, June 15, 2024 at 3:00pm
Finding Trust
in a Changing World
Prayer and Well-being
(A SPIRITUAL ADVENTURE)
Sponsored by
Christian Science Society, Bloomington
Sponsored by
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Decatur
Earlier this season:
Saturday, September 23rd
Saturday, October 21st
Saturday, November 4th
Never Alone –
How Spiritual Ideas Work in Us
Moving Past Fear –
To Healing
Learning to Love your Enemies
Sponsored by
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Decatur
Sponsored by
First Church of Christ, Scientist, Springfield
Sponsored by
Christian Science Society, Champaign
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Each church has their own service times and may be holding services
in-person or remotely. Click on the box to learn more.
CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS BELIEVE…
Christian Scientists believe in one, infinite God who is All and all-good. We believe that God is not distant and unknowable, but that God is all-encompassing and always present, and that each individual is loved by God, cared for by Him, and made in God’s image—spiritual, not material.
Christian Scientists believe in The Bible and in Christ Jesus as the Son of God, or promised Messiah. We believe that Jesus’ teachings and healing work expressed scientific Christianity, or the application of the laws of God—laws which are still practical and provable today, by anyone, anywhere. Christian Scientists consider the Commandments, as well as Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, to be central to their lives and practice of Christianity.
Christian Scientists believe in the saving, healing power of God’s love—that no one is beyond redemption, that no problem is too entrenched or overwhelming to be addressed and healed. In other words, Christian Scientists don’t believe that salvation occurs at some point in the future, but that the presence of God’s goodness can be experienced here and now—and by everyone.
In 1879, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer of Christian Science, founded the Church of Christ, Scientist. Her purpose was to establish a church designed, “to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing.” (Manual of The Mother Church.)
