“The Science of God and its Power to Heal Us” – A Talk sponsored by First Church of Christ, Scientist, Allentown, PA
About this talk:
This talk will focus on universal healing rules and laws found in the Holy Bible, especially in Christ Jesus’ life and teachings, showing how they are available for anyone to understand and experience through the lens of Christian Science. The talk is free, open to the community, and hosted by First Church of Christ, Scientist, Allentown, PA.
After experiencing a seemingly miraculous healing herself, Nikki began to question her assumptions about God. “Was it just an inexplicable anomaly that had no scientific explanation?” She asks, “Or is there a science that can explain this kind of healing? Is there a science that enables us to understand and experience God?”
Sharing examples of healing from her own life and professional practice of Christian Science, O’Hagan will explain why Christian Science is both Christian and scientific, meaning that people can prove its effectiveness for themselves, as fully described in the book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, written by the founder of the Christian Science movement, Mary Baker Eddy.
O’Hagan will also touch on the life of Mary Baker Eddy, who came to understand, confirm, and teach what she felt was original Christian healing. Eddy herself said she was especially inspired by Jesus’ demand, “He that believes on me, the works that I do will he do also; and greater works than these will he do, because I go unto my Father” (found in the Gospel of John 14:12 in the Bible).
For over 150 years, people around the world have worked to follow Christ Jesus in this practice of Christianity and continue to do so today, experiencing healings of physical ills and personal difficulties.
Nikki O’Hagan has been a Christian Science practitioner for many years, helping people on a daily basis through this scientific approach to prayer. She travels from her home base in Naas, County Kildare, Ireland, to speak to audiences around the world as a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship
About our Speaker Nikki O’Hagan, CS:
Member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship
Nikki grew up in South Africa where she gained a love for being outdoors and enjoying the beauty and promise of nature. From a young age she had a strong desire to not just experience life, but to understand it. She used to exasperate her dad by following up every explanation he gave her by asking “but, Why?” While Nikki did grow up attending Christian Science Sunday School, as a teen she decided that this would not be the way for her to gain the understanding of life that she was seeking, and she headed off in another direction.
Several years followed in which she desperately tried to find happiness and to understand the Why of life. She looked everywhere and tried everything (even jumping out of an airplane!) but nothing brought answers, happiness or lasting peace. Rather than finding an understanding of life, it all seemed to just get darker and make less and less sense.
And then a transformational healing brought her back to Christian Science, where she found comfort, peace, mercy, happiness, harmony, health, and home in the arms of divine Love. Nikki then discovered that she loved the infallible logic of the Science of Christianity and found in it all the answers to her Whys. Life and God finally began to make sense and became full of joy, light, and love. Her gratitude for this pivotal healing, and the salvation it brought her by setting her on the path of Christian Science, was–and still is–unbounded. Since that time all she has wanted to do is love and serve God, and love and serve others.
Through her study and practice of Christian Science, Nikki has experienced and witnessed so many healings over the years. Her earnest desire is for all to know the transformational healing power of divine Love. Becoming a Christian Science practitioner was a natural step in fulfilling this desire.
Nikki looks forward to sharing with others, through the lecturing work, the subjects most precious and dear to her heart: God and Christian Science.
