Why I choose to be a Christian Scientist

I choose to be a Christian Scientist because I believe Christian Science is the truth of all being—the truth of one supreme God, who is divine Love, and Love’s universal family, including all identities as immortal expressions of Life. This truth is so good, and yet I wouldn’t align with it if I didn’t believe it to be true. We read in John’s gospel, “From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life” (John 6:66–68).

I choose to be a Christian Scientist because being a Christian Scientist is inseparable from living a purpose-filled, deeply meaningful life. At the heart of this sense of purpose is the working out of salvation, which I see as coming home to my forever oneness with my Father-Mother God.

I choose to be a Christian Scientist because being so affords me the opportunity to humbly contribute to the working out of humanity’s salvation. I believe that humanity has a profound and utter need for what Christian Science alone can give—an accurate understanding of who we are as members of Love’s universal family.