Vision and Purpose

The purpose of the Oak Park Church is to teach, inspire and to encourage the practice of the spiritual truth of Divine Life and Unconditional Love. We have dedicated ourselves to be a beacon of Light shining forth that all is Love, all is Law, all is Good and all is God.

The vision of the Oak Park Church of Religious Science is to see the Divine Potential incarnate in every person so that this may express in the world in ever greater ways. Our ultimate vision is a world where love is the normal standard in business, in politics and in families. We see this vision accomplished one person at a time, one thought at a time, beginning with ourself. Our measure of success is for you to have more good, more joy, and more friendship in your life than you had the day before.

CORE VALUES

The Oak Park Church of Religious Science is the place :

I. where I feel accepted just the way I am and am inspired and supported to be the person I desire to be

II. where something good is always happening

III. where I get a deeper understanding of my Self

IV. where I always get good food for my soul and my body

V. where the atmosphere always exudes Love, Beauty and Joy

VI. where I express and experience God.

What we believe

We believe in God, the Living Spirit Almighty; one indestructible, absolute and self-existent Cause. This One manifests Itself in and through all creation. The manifest universe is the body of God; it is the logical and necessary outcome of the infinite self-knowingness of God.

We believe in the incarnation of the Spirit in man and that all men are incarnations of the One Spirit.

We believe in the eternality, the immortality and the continuity of the individual soul, forever and ever expanding.

We believe that the Kingdom of Heaven is within man and that we experience this Kingdom in the degree that we become conscious of it.

We believe the ultimate goal of life to be a complete emancipation from all discord of every nature, and that this goal is sure to be attained by all.

We believe in the unity of all life, and that the highest God and the innermost God is one God.

We believe that God is personal to all who feel this Indwelling Presence.

We believe in the direct revelation of Truth through the intuitive and spiritual nature of the individual, and that any one may become a revealer of Truth who lives in close contact with the Indwelling God.

We believe that the Universal Spirit, which is God, operates through a Universal Mind, which is the Law of God; and that we are surrounded by this Creative Mind which receives the direct impress of our thought and acts upon it.

We believe in the healing of the sick through the power of this Mind.

We believe in the control of conditions though the power of this Mind.

We believe in the eternal Goodness, the eternal Loving-kindness and the eternal Givingness of Life to all.

We believe in our own soul, our own spirit and our own destiny; for we understand that the life of man is God.