Christian Science Society
Peoria, Illinois
ABOUT US
CHURCH. The structure of Truth and Love; whatever rests upon and proceeds from divine Principle.
The Church is that institution, which affords proof of its utility and is found elevating the race, rousing the dormant understanding from material beliefs to the apprehension of spiritual ideas and the demonstration of divine Science, thereby casting out devils, or error, and healing the sick.
—Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
This society is one of many branches of The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston Massachusetts. The Discoverer of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, desired to "organize a church designed to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost elements of healing" (Manual of The Mother Church. p. 17).
Second Church of Christ, Scientist, was formed in 1914, when westward growth in Peoria prompted a need for a Christian Science church in the West Bluff. Our present edifice was completed in 1982 to better serve the population expansion northward in Peoria. We changed our name to Christian Science Society in 2019.
Tenets of Christian Science
1. As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
