Consider this: a church member's marriage crumbles or the member's family is facing some other challenge, so he or she feels too embarrassed, too unworthy, too ashamed, to attend church.
In the Manual of The Mother Church, Mary Baker Eddy defines the duty of the Committee on Publication: "to correct in a Christian manner impositions on the public in regard to Christian Science.
At times it may seem that what stands between us and happiness or some worthwhile achievement is a long list of individuals or things that are in one way or another posing a barrier.