Christian Science Church
Fish Hoek
Church Services and Testimony Meetings
Church Services are held every Sunday from 10am - 11am.
The members of Fish Hoek Society lovingly invite you to our in-person Sunday Service at 10 am.
For those who are not able to attend in person, we attach our Zoom link. Please feel free to share this link with your friends.
Topic: Christian Science Society, Fish Hoek- Sunday Church Meeting on Zoom. This is a recurring meeting.
Time: 10am.
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Meeting ID: 816 2411 6938
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A major part of each Sunday service consists of listening prayerfully to the reading of a Lesson Sermon from the Holy Bible with correlative passages from the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Each week's Lesson Sermon deals with one of 26 successive Bible Lesson subjects. The Bible Lessons are published in the Christian Science Quarterly and studied in advance by those around the world interested in furthering their understanding of Christian Science. Copies of the Quarterly are made available to the congregation for use in the services and can be purchased from our Reading Room for use at home.
The Lesson Sermon is read aloud by two readers, and the service includes music, a scriptural selection, hymns from the Christian Science Hymnal, a musical solo, silent prayer, and the Lord’s Prayer. The service concludes with a Blessing.
Testimony Meetings take place on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Wednesday of each month from 6.00 – 7.00pm.
Connect to the Wednesday Testimony Meetings via Zoom
The focus of Testimony Meetings is two-fold: to address prayerfully topics of current concern to the community or the world in general through readings from the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, and to provide opportunity for those attending to share healing experiences and gratitude arising from their study and practice of Christian Science. Hymn singing is a special aspect of these meetings.
Our Reading Room, located in the church building, is open after every service, on Thursdays from 10am to 12 noon, or by appointment (see Reading Room page).
Fish Hoek Church Reading Room
Fish Hoek’s Christian Science Reading Room is housed in the church premises and is open after every church service and testimony meeting, and on Thursdays from 10am to 12noon, or by appointment (call 072 578 3281).
The Reading Room stocks a range of Christian Science books and periodicals for sale, including the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy’s other writings, the Christian Science Journal, the Christian Science Sentinel, and the weekly edition of the international newspaper, the Christian Science Monitor.
Science and Health can be ordered in the following editions: French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Indonesian, Norwegian, Polish and Russian.
The Herald of Christian Science, which can also be ordered in the Reading Room, publishes articles and testimonies of Christian Science healing in 14 languages.
Sample resources in a variety of languages, including Afrikaans, Igbo, Lingala, Shona, Swahili, Tswana, Yoruba, and many others here.
Resources specially for children may be found here.
The Reading Room also maintains a lending library for use by the congregation and especially by members of the public. The library includes Biblical Reference works, biographies of Mary Baker Eddy and other useful materials.
A full range of Christian Science library resources is also available directly from https://christianscience.buysub.com/
For more about Reading Rooms.
Order online from home or ask a Reading Room assistant who will order the materials you require.
OUR PURPOSE —
Fish Hoek's Christian Science Reading Room, Book Shop and Lending Library help people to:
Explore Bible-based healing through prayer
Obtain Bibles and Bible research materials
Study Science and Health, a textbook for daily life
Read other books by and biographies of Mary Baker Eddy
Take in the weekly Bible Lesson
Read or buy periodicals with healing articles
Discover the Christian Science Monitor, an international newspaper
Ask questions about prayer and healing
Find a way to effective solutions through prayer
Discover something of God's ever-present Love
Spend time in silent prayer
WHY NOT VISIT?
Lectures and Events
Christian Science Lectures
These free public talks cover a variety of health, family, community, and global topics, showing how the application of the teachings of Christian Science brings healing and regeneration to individuals and communities.
They are designed specifically for anyone interested in learning more about Christian Science, whether as a first-time visitor or as a life-long student of this Science.
https://www.youtube.com/user/officialcslectures
http://christiansciencect.org/historical-christian-science-lectures-2/
- Phillip Hockley CS: A new view of God and its effect on well-being
- Fujiko Signs CSB: Love without limit, Life without fear
- John Benson CS: Step out of your story into healing
What Is Christian Science?
What is Christian Science?
Christian Science is a Bible-based Christian teaching focused on spirituality and healing. Its purpose is to bless humanity, helping each of us to experience more of our God-given heritage of health and freedom.
Founded in the 19th century by Mary Baker Eddy, a radical spiritual pioneer, thinker, and healer, Christian Science is strongly Christian in its dedication to practising the teachings of Jesus and his early followers.
A foundational statement of the Christian Science movement is that it aims to ‘reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing’ (Church Manual). Christian Science should not be confused with Scientology, with which it has nothing in common.
The Christian Science movement is named the Church of Christ, Scientist and comprises The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass., USA, with its democratically self-governing branch churches and societies around the world.
To find out more follow this link.
Mary Baker Eddy
Mary Baker Eddy
Mary Baker Eddy is the discoverer and founder of Christian Science. She brought renewed world attention to the importance of Christian healing as practised by Christ Jesus and his early followers.
She lived in New England from 1821 to 1910. Following a significant healing in 1866, she devoted her life to clarifying, applying, and then sharing the spiritual laws underlying spiritual healing.
Her discovery is explained in her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
She established the Christian Science church to make this teaching and practice widely available.
The first tenet, or important point, of Christian Science reads, ‘As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life’ (Science and Health, 497).
Science and Health is available in our Reading Room to read, borrow or purchase, or you can read it online here.
Find out more about Mary Baker Eddy here.
Online biographies are available here.Seeking and Finding
Seeking and Finding
Who should investigate Christian Science?
Christian Science attracts people seeking real answers to life’s big questions. Questions such as Who am I? What is my purpose? Is there a recipe for health? Is there such a thing as spiritual healing? Why is there such trouble in the world and what can I do about it? What is the true basis of human flourishing?
As with anything worthwhile, the answers offered are neither slick nor glib and certainly demand spiritual effort and consecration. But the rewards are profound and permanent.
Why not obtain a copy of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy? See what you make of it.
You might want to take special note of the final chapter, ‘Fruitage’, which consists of healings experienced by simply reading this book with close spiritual attention.
The book’s opening words are, ‘To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings’ (vii).
Why not begin to reap some of these blessings …?
More Resources
More Resources
ebiblelesson.com provides a fresh, convenient way to read the weekly Christian Science Bible Lesson online.You can:
- read the lesson as it appears in the Bible and Science and Health
- print the full-text (Study Edition) of current and forthcoming lessons
- download an audio version of the lesson to your MP3 player.
ChristianScience.com offers a rich array of Christian Science study resources. These include live Q&A chats, searchable versions of the Bible and Science and Health, and hundreds of articles by different authors illustrating how prayer has healed health challenges, relationship difficulties, financial and career problems, and other troubles.