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Edgewood, Washington
Rev. Steve Colladay, Minister
Unity Church of Christianity has been the home of positive, practical Christian spirituality serving Edgewood and surrounding communities since 1972. Our Sunday services, weekly classes, workshops, and prayer and study groups are life-enriching, informational, warm, and inspirational. Because we are continuing to grow in membership, our programs and services available to you continue to expand. We invite you to come grow with us. Experience the joy, peace, and supportive atmosphere at Unity!
Founded in 1889, Unity is a worldwide educational and religious organization founded in Kansas City, Missouri. Unity offers a practical philosophy for living and an extremely positive approach to life. Unity seeks to accept the good in people and all of life--unabashedly focusing on and celebrating the "original blessing." Unity has no strict creed or dogma but offers a comprehensive teaching to all who are seeking a deeper understanding of their spiritual nature.
Unity teaches that God is good and God's will for us is good--happiness, health, harmony, and abundance. As children of God, our purpose in life is to express our divine potential. God is seen as having many attributes, the most important of which is that God is Love. Unity stresses that God is Spirit, every where equally present, the one and only Spirit and Power behind, in, and through all things, visible and invisible.
Unity denies the existence of any power or presence opposed to God. It sees that evil behavior and suffering are in the world, but ascribes these to humankind's ignorance and erroneous use of God's laws of life. Humankind, as co-creator of life, is responsible for the misery in the world.
Millions of people have been introduced to Unity through its periodicals, particularly the Daily Word, published at Unity World Headquarters in Missouri. Millions of others are familiar with Unity through its prayer ministry, known as Silent Unity, which has maintained a round-the-clock vigil of prayer for more than 100 years. Thousands of people around the world call the silent prayer ministry each day and receive comfort and prayer support (800-669-7729).
Unity's teachings are founded upon the universal principles of Truth as taught and lived by Jesus Christ. This Truth is continually unfolding and revealing itself and is ultimately understood within the heart of each person. Unity proclaims the divinity of Jesus but goes further and assures that you, too, are a child of God and, therefore, you are divine in nature. Jesus expressed His divine potential and sought to show us how to express ours as well. Salvation is, then, the expanding understanding of one's innate divinity and perfectibility through living the life demonstrated by Jesus.
Unity regards Jesus not as a religious leader but as a master of life--a cosmic figure. At their essence, His teachings are spiritual. They transcend all "religions." Eloquent, yet exquisitely simple, they are profound teachings, highly relevant to our everyday lives. Science is only now beginning to verify the truth of what Jesus said. Jesus = concepts of the limitless power of the mind, the capacity of love and joy to heal inner (as well as outer) conditions, these and other breakthroughs are now measurable in research laboratories.
Unity explains the mind as your connecting link with God or Divine Mind and shows how the action of your mind affects your body and circumstances. Much emphasis is placed on the effective power that every thought, feeling, word, and act has upon your life. |
