FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST

1618 Gordon Avenue

Charlottesville, Virginia  22903-1918

Phone:  434-293-3398

E-mail:  fccs@avenue.org

Directions to Church:  University Avenue to light at Rugby Road. Right or left on Rugby to Gordon Avenue, one block to17th Street.  The church is on the corner of 17th and Gordon Avenue.  
The parking lot is in the rear off 17th Street.


This church is a branch of  The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, MA

• The Bible Lesson-Sermon, read each Sunday in all branch churches, is comprised of references from the King James Version of the Bible and from the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.  Our Wednesday evening meetings include testimonies of healing by people who have applied Christian Science to every sort of human problem. You will also hear of individual insights into Biblical references and how they have instructed and guided people to help them solve their everyday challenges. There is child care at both services. Please join us. People of all faiths (or no faith) are welcome.
• The Lesson-Sermon for Sunday, November 22nd, is entitled, "Soul and Body." The Golden Text is from Isaiah 60:19 the Lord.
• "... the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory."

• AN INVITATION FROM OUR CHURCH
• Our Reading Room welcomes you at both doors--front and back. If you are looking for a quiet place to think and pray, explore the Bible and become acquainted with Christian Science, this is the place. Don't know anything about Christian Science? Come in and ask us. We love to share what we know. Ask about our lending library, Bible reference materials, and the many Christian Science periodicals available. Our denominational textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy is available also in languages other than English. Reading this book has healed countless individuals and changed lives in remarkable ways. Why not you?
• The Reading Room has excellent Bible reference materials for the serious student. Purchase them there or study them in the Reading Room.
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• A SPECIAL INVITATION FROM OUR CHURCH TO THE COMMUNITY
• Thanksgiving Day is Thursday, November 26th. Plan to join us at 10:30 AM for our annual one-hour Thanksgiving Day service. It is a joyous time of gratitude and sharing. There will be appropriate hymns, a special solo for the occasion, brief readings on the subject and testimonies by the congregation for the blessings of God in their lives during the past year. Parking is in the rear and side of our church. We'd love to welcome you.

OUR WEEKLY QUOTATION:

• Miscellaneous Writings by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 232:6, 234:6.

• This age is reaching out towards the perfect Principle of things; is pushing towards perfection in art, invention, and manufacture. Why, then, should religion be stereotyped, and we not obtain a more perfect and practical Christianity? It will never do to be behind the times in things most essential, which proceed from the standard of right that regulates human destiny. Human skill but foreshadows what is next to appear as its divine origin. Proportionately as we part with material systems and theories, personal doctrines and dogmas, meekly to ascend the hill of Science, shall we reach the maximun of perfection in all things.

• "Love is the Principle of divine Science; and Love is not learned of the material senses, nor gained by a cuplable attempt to seem what we have not lifted ourselves to be, namely, a Christian. In love for man, we gain a true sense of Love as God; and in no other way can we reach this spiritual sense, and rise -- and still rise -- to things most essential and divine. What hinders man's progress is his vain conceit, the Phariseeism of the times, also his effort to steal from others and avoid hard work; errors which can never find a place in Science. Empirical knowledge is worse than useless: it never has advanced man a single step in the scale of being."

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