What is Unity?
Unity
is positive, practical Christianity. We promote a way of life
that leads to health, prosperity, happiness, and peace of mind.
Unity
has established centers of study and worship throughout the world where
people discover and practice the Unity way of life. We address
physical, mental, and emotional needs through affirmative prayer and
spiritual education. We serve those who seek inspiration and prayer
support as well as those who use Unity teachings as their primary path
of spiritual growth.
We
believe that all people are created with sacred worth, and we strive to
reach out to all who seek support and spiritual growth. Therefore, we
recognize the importance of serving all people in spiritually and
emotionally caring ways. Our ministries and outreaches are free of
discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, creed, religion,
national origin, ethnicity, physical disability, and sexual orientation.
Our
sincere desire is to create spiritually aware organizations that are
nondiscriminatory and support diversity. (From the Unity website, www.unity.org)
What are Unity's basic teachings?
Unity
encourages you to explore and apply Unity teachings based on your own
spiritual understanding, or consciousness. These are the five basic
ideas that make up the Unity belief system.
1. God is the source and creator of all. There is no other enduring power. God is good and present everywhere.
2.
We are spiritual beings, created in Godï's image. The spirit of God
lives within each person; therefore, all people are inherently good.
3. We create our life experiences through our way of thinking.
4. There is power in affirmative prayer, which we believe increases our awareness of our connection to God.
5.
Knowledge of these spiritual principles is wonderful, but by
consciously living them we empower these principles in our lives.
Do these principles resonate with you?
Then you might want to visit a Unity church near you. You can go
to www.UnityOnline.org to find a church in your area.
As
in any vital, thriving organization, you may find some slight
differences between one Unity spiritual center and the next,
including the format of the Sunday service, classes, activities, music
program, youth education, and more.
Underlying
all the Unity churches are the 5 principles and a belief that one's
spiritual journey is a unique, ongoing, inward-led process. We invite
you to join with Unity and others of "like mind" as we explore a life of
spiritual consciousness!
At
Unity Athens we celebrate ~ ~ One loving, empowering, supportive God,
Human diversity in all of its delightful forms, An open atmosphere of
positive thinking, And the expansion and renewal of our spiritual
nature.
If you are in the Athens, Georgia area, we'd love to see you at Unity Center for Spiritual Growth!