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General Category => Greater Reno Tahoe Area => Topic started by: AngelOfThyNight on June 16, 2016, 06:35:46 AM

Title: Christian Scientists ponder relevance of church at their annual meeting
Post by: AngelOfThyNight on June 16, 2016, 06:35:46 AM
Christian Scientists ponder relevance of church at their annual meeting


























When Christian Scientists convened in Boston, Mass., Monday, June 6, for the annual meeting of their denomination, they faced a question many mainline Christian churches also confront: can church be relevant today? Their perspective on this question — as on just about everything else — runs counter to the popular narrative. “There’s a universal hunger for the heartfelt experience of God’s saving power,” said Margaret Rogers, chairwoman of the five-member lay board of directors of the Church of Christ, Scientist, which has its worldwide headquarters in Boston. “The demand,” she said, is for a church “that is vibrant with unselfed  …
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