The congregation was scandalized that someone would dare to say that they might have some problems, or perhaps we might need to admit fault.
That is a really scary church to me, Theoden. It is not biblical at all.
I'd have never been allowed back a second time.
Much less a third, etc...
That church has too much "law" and not enough "grace".
That is sad, too, because those people become like robots...following their (misguided) leader and they are hypocrits - yet they are probably out there witnessing. That is why people don't embrace Christianity - because most churches offer such a warped image of it.