"The Christ is active and attractive in Southern Pines!" This quote from Elise Moore is our motto for this year's lecture!
In our report at the November 12 membership meeting, we asked you all to think and pray daily for our community and our lecture, "Curing the Incurable," which is our annual gift to the community. Elise refers to this as "metaphysical marketing" - reaching out to our community leaders, merchants, clergy, doctors, nurses, teachers, radio hosts, and neighbors right NOW in our prayers and daily activities! In this way we support the attraction to the Christ that is innate in every heart and prepare these hearts to be receptive to our invitation to the lecture - and to our church services, as well. During our March 8 Lecture Preparatory Meeting, Elise will emphasize that “everyone is already spiritually minded. Holding the right idea of others in our thought and seeing them as spiritually minded makes communication so much easier.”
In her letter to the members that was handed out to everyone at the November meeting, Elise suggests that we read John 4:1-42 and look at this story as the first lecture preparatory meeting! What happened when the Samaritan woman discovered the Christ? How did she feel? How did her actions express her response to the Christ?
We need also to think about what our lecture title means to us and others. In researching the word “incurable” with the computer study program Bound Volumes, Joan Barriage has found 21 articles, testimonies, and editorials from 1898-present, as well as 8 testimonies in the Fruitage chapter of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. In addition, the theme of the July 14, 2008, Sentinel is “Curing the Incurable.” These are all available to you in our Reading Room.
At this time of gift-giving, we are so blessed to have the greatest gift of all - Christian Science and its practical application, as demonstrated by Jesus and discovered by Mary Baker Eddy. However, we need to know that we are not a select few who know this truth - God speaks to every heart in a way that it can understand!
Rejoice in the gift we have to give! Pray that God will provide daily opportunities for us to share the good news of the presence of the Christ!
Lovingly,
The Lecture Committee
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