My husband was raised Roman Catholic and he said when he was about ten years old, he went to a different church than the one he usually went to. A nun approached him and said in a mean voice, “What are YOU doing here? You don’t belong here!”. He never went back to a Catholic Church and his Mom didn’t make him. He is a Christian and loves the Lord Jesus Christ but this experience turned him off to the Catholic Church forever. I wonder why so many in authority don’t realize the lasting, negative effect they have on kids.
I taught elementary school in the late seventies and I still pray sometimes for my students that the Lord would heal them from anything I might have done or said that turned them away from him.
Things like this happen in ALL churches; I am afraid.
Even things said or done in a warm, friendly manner can have quite the opposite effect that was intended.
"Slow to speak" comes to mind...