Welcome back to Samus Popery. I'm Joe Heschmire, and I'm here at the Catholic Creators Conference

with Adrian from Sipsosera and Braden from the Catecuman. And I wanted to pose a question. So my most

viewed video as of the time of recording is a video I did called do Protestants worship or do

Protestants worship God. And the video's gotten a lot of pushback,

both positive and negative feedback. And so I wanted to talk to two guys who are Protestant converts

to Catholicism and kind of nuanced the argument and say, what can we make of it and, you know,

what are some ways to present it charitably and accurately? So first of all, gentlemen, thank you so much for joining. And why don't we go one at a time and maybe tell us just a

brief bit about yourself, your conversion to Catholicism, and then also introduce your channel as well.

Yeah. Hi, I'm Adrian from Sips with Sarah. I converted, oh man, let's see, I was an evangelical Christian.

I reverted to Protestantism in 2018, stayed there for a couple of years, and then realized,

oh, the early church doesn't really believe what we believe about the Eucharist, about baptism,

and things like that. So looking into early church history made me want to find a church that was more in line with that early church. So that eventually led to me becoming a Lutheran and then eventually a Catholic, and that's a whole other crazy story we can get into. But yeah. Hey, I'm Braden from the catacumen. Similar story. I feel like a lot of people these days are converting from evangelical, kind of non-denominational Baptist dreams. And that's

how I grew up. I was Baptist, non-denominational, and it really was encountering the church fathers,

recognizing, hey, there's no Baptists in these writings that I'm looking at. They believed in

regenerative baptism. And in all these things as as adrian mentioned and i just

remember um it it was that struggle like can't we can't we just be anglican or lutheran they

kind of look like catholics uh we don't have to go all the way but it eventually led us um

to even just start looking into cath arguments that we hadn't really considered before

because we were taught to think Catholics were kind of out of their minds and know what they were

talking about. Didn't read the Bible. So definitely turned out to be wrong. Did you make a stopover

in high church Protestantism on your journey into the church? No, we didn't. We didn't. And I was actually working as like an interim youth pastor at a Baptist church whenever we

started inquiring and got married, moved colleges, a whole bunch of changes.

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