The members of First Church of Christ Scientist, Santa Cruz (Soquel) warmly welcome you to a lecture presentation by Lyle Young of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He will speak on the subject: “Christian Science – A Clearer View of You. He will speak at our church, 3200 Center Street, Soquel on Thursday , May 12 at 7:30 pm, or call 831-475-1919 for more information on this event.

Mr. Young writes: “Who are we, really? You and I, and all humanity? The health, harmony, and joy we experience in life depends on our answer to this question.

Mary Baker Eddy, who founded the Christian Science church, had a profound insight into the nature of God as infinite Love. She perceived that God is the only substance, intelligence and Life of the universe, without the opposition typically ascribed to darkness or evil. Moreover, Eddy realized that this was the basis of Jesus’ healing works.]

This is revolutionary. Eddy didn’t say that conflict, struggle, and disease exist as unavoidable realities.. Rather, she saw infinite Love, and genuine creation as the perfect spiritual expression of this Love, instead of the imperfect, material existence we typically assume defines us. To Eddy, infinite Love, being infinite, simply excludes the possibility of anything else.

Such an unusual theology might have ended as a footnote to history, except that Eddy and her students boldly used it to reinvigorate Christianity and its lost element of healing. Since then, some 65,000 accounts of healing have been verified and published – healings of everything from cancer to AIDS to blindness, from drug addiction to broken bones.”

Mr. Young first learned of Christian Science when he was a university student through an on-campus Christian Science organization. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Knowing that the world needed healing, wanting to be part of the solutions to the world’s problems, and feeling that Christian Science provided the spiritual tools to pray effectively and find answers, Mr. Young began selecting one news article each week to pray about .

Very quickly, he knew that doing this only once a week wasn’t enough! He began reserving first two and then three nights a week to pray for others and the world. And eventually, he left his university program to devote himself full time to helping others through prayer as a Christian Science practitioner. He is also an authorized teacher of Christian Science, to help others reliably practice this healing system as well.

His love and affection for humanity expresses itself in a keen interest in cultures, languages, history, the arts, and sports. He runs and swims regularly and is a four-season cyclist.

Mr. Young is a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship. He lectures in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch.

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