About our Sunday Service
The Pastor of our church is the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. The First Reader conducts the service, and two Readers deliver the sermon. The sermon begins with the Second Reader reading citations from the Authorized King James Version of the Bible. Bible citations read by the Second Reader are followed by correlative passages from Science and Health read by the First Reader.
The service is preceded and followed by Organ music. The congregation sings three hymns accompanied by organ music. Just before the sermon a solo is sung.
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Order of Regular Sunday Services
Prelude. Music by the organist providing a quite period for thought and prayer.
Opening Hymn. Hymns are preceded by the First Reader reading the first stanza, unless the words are by Mary Baker Eddy, in which case the entire hymn is read.
Reading a Scriptural Selection. Selected and read by the First Reader.
Prayer. The congregation unites in silent prayer. This is followed by the congregation uniting in praying audibly the Lord’s Prayer as in Matthew 6:9-13. The First Reader begins the prayer and the congregation joins in. At the end of each section of the prayer, the First Reader responds with the spiritual interpretation of the Lord’s Prayer. See Science and Health pages 16-17.
Hymn.
Notices. “Necessary notices.”
Solo.
Explanatory Note. Read by the First Reader from the Christian Science Quarterly.
Subject of Lesson-Sermon and The Golden Text. Read by the First Reader.
Responsive Reading. Read alternately by the First Reader and the congregation.
Lesson-Sermon. The sections comprising the Lesson-Sermon are read alternately beginning with the Second Reader reading Bible citations followed by the First Reader reading correlative passages from Science and Health. There are a total of twenty-six lesson subjects read twice each year. Each time a Lesson-Sermon is compiled, citations that are different from the previous Lesson-Sermon with the same subject are used. For your information these subjects are listed below.
Collection. In our church there is no such thing as tithing, nor is any other method used in our church to compel giving. Contributions are to be genuine freewill offerings.
Hymn.
The scientific statement of being (S&H 468:9-15) and its correlative Scripture according to I John 3:1-3. Read by the First Reader.
Pronouncing Benediction. A blessing read from the Scriptures by the First Reader.
Postlude Organ Music.
