Christian Science Church

Shamokin, Pennsylvania

Christian Science Sunday Services

Each Sunday, the same sermon is read in Christian Science churches throughout the world.Two Readers elected from our membership conduct the services. They read the weekly Lesson-Sermon found in the Christian Science Quarterly which consists of passages from the Bible and from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. Mrs. Eddy ordained these two books to be the pastor of the Church. There is no ordained clergy.

One of the primary reasons Mrs. Eddy "ordained" the two books as pastor of her church was to avoid the emphasis on human personality, to insure sermons "undivorced from truth, uncontaminated and unfettered by human hypotheses and divinely authorized" (Christian Science Quarterly).

In reference to this pastor, Mrs. Eddy once said "...the Life these give, the Truth they illustrate, the Love they demonstrate, is the great Shepherd that feedeth my flock, and leadeth them 'beside the still waters'.'' (Miscellaneous Writings by Mary Baker Eddy, pg. 322:12-15)

Order of Service

1. Hymn
2. Reading a Scriptural Selection
3. Silent Prayer, followed by the audible repetition of the Lord's Prayer with its spiritual interpretation
4. Hymn
5. Announcing necessary notices
6. Solo
7. Reading the explanatory note on first leaf of Quarterly
8. Announcing the subject of the Lesson-Sermon, and reading the Golden Text
9. Reading the Scriptural selection, entitled "Responsive Reading," alternately by the First Reader and the congregation
10. Reading the Lesson-Sermon
11. Collection
12. Hymn
13. Reading the scientific statement of being, and the correlative SCRIPTURE according to I John 3:1-3
14. Pronouncing Benediction

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