Christian Science, founded in 1866 by Mary Baker Eddy, is based on the Bible and the teachings of Christ Jesus. Those teachings point to laws of God that, when understood, bring healing. Christian Science teaches that spiritual healing—as taught by Christ Jesus—is accessible to anyone today. There are Christian Science churches around the world that share Christian Science with their communities.What We Believe First Church of Christ, Scientist Upper Arlington's Mission is Progressing SpirituallyIt is our purpose to express daily, the Divine Principle we have found to be so effective.It is our intention to maintain a place where anyone can come to study and worship, to have Christian fellowship and to learn to heal.It is our mission to love mankind and follow the leadings of Christ.ChristianScience.com

Christian Science has six religious tenets. They are rooted in the Bible, and are found on pages 496-497 of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life. We acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God. We acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in God’s image and likeness. We acknowledge God’s forgiveness of sin in the destruction of sin and the spiritual understanding that casts out evil as unreal. But the belief in sin is punished so long as the belief lasts. We acknowledge Jesus’ atonement as the evidence of divine, efficacious Love, unfolding man’s unity with God through Christ Jesus the Way-shower; and we acknowledge that man is saved through Christ, through Truth, Life, and Love as demonstrated by the Galilean Prophet in healing the sick and overcoming sin and death. We acknowledge that the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection served to uplift faith to understand eternal Life, even the allness of Soul, Spirit, and the nothingness of matter. And we solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that Mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and to be merciful, just, and pure.

Mary Baker Eddy, a Christian healer, discovered and founded Christian Science, defining Christian Science as “the law of God, the law of good . . . ” (Rudimental Divine Science, p. 1). She discovered that God is infinite Love, and completely good. A clear glimpse of this has power to heal and transform anyone. Mary Baker Eddy was a lifelong student of the Bible. And she’d always wanted to find solutions to human suffering. When she was critically injured in 1866, she turned to God with her whole heart. While reading accounts of Jesus’ swift, powerful healings, she experienced a new sense of God. She saw that God, Spirit, is the only reality. And she was completely healed. She wanted to understand what happened, so she studied the Bible and found universal and dependable laws of God. These laws are the foundation of Christian Science.​Since then many people have been healed and redeemed as they learn about their relationship to God through this reliable Science of Christianity.Read More at www.marybakereddylibrary.org and ChristianScience.com/mary-baker-eddy

Christian Scientists approach health as they do every aspect of life—from a spiritual basis. We turn to God in prayer for help and healing, including for physical needs. This reliance is based on more than 150 years of reliable, consistent healing through Christian Science. There is a misperception that Christian Scientists aren’t allowed to visit doctors. In fact, Christian Scientists are free to choose their own form of healthcare—whether it is spiritual healing, medical care, or some other method. The reason they often choose a prayer-based approach to healing is because they’ve found it to be effective.Healing in Christian Science

Our pastor is the Bible and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. Our members elect two readers from our congregation to read from these texts for our services.Find out More: https://www.christianscience.com/the-christian-science-pastor