E208: Tradition, Scripture, and Church Unity w/Keith Nester | Lila Rose Show
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🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Keith Nester, a former pastor who spent over 20 years in ministry—until one verse changed everything. When he heard Jesus say in Matthew 26:26, “This is my body,” he knew it wasn’t symbolic. Embracing that truth meant losing his ministry, his income, and nearly his marriage.
He resisted at first, but as liberalism overtook his denomination, he realized only Church tradition could stand firm.
Today, Keith helps others find their way home. His mission: unite Christians in truth and reignite a deep love for scripture and Christ’s teachings. He’s living proof that following truth is worth everything.
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00:00:00 - Intro
00:07:00 - Sabotaging his Pastor interview
00:10:26 - Seven Weeks
00:11:13 - I met this girl…
00:19:47 - How do you look back on your Protestant years?
00:24:11 - We Heart Nutrition
00:25:08 - When did the meltdown happen?
00:30:44 - Communion/Eucharistic liturgy
00:34:00 - The moment I went away sad
00:35:11 - EveryLife
00:36:23 - Doubling down on ministry
00:42:00 - Saying ‘no’ to big church
00:43:05 - Scripture vs/and Tradition
00:48:00 - Gospel just hit me
00:52:00 - The Way, Truth, and Life
00:57:32 - First year after conversion
01:00:00 - You can lose your soul in ministry
01:09:27 - Explain the Church and leave it to God
01:19:00 - God works with us
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny. |
| 0:04.0 | Down time can be just fine, plain bangers from them 90s. |
| 0:08.0 | Tea break. |
| 0:09.0 | Lunt break. |
| 0:10.0 | Maybe listen to the outbreak. |
| 0:12.0 | Sometimes it's not time for some tombollah, right? |
| 0:15.0 | It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time go on play some other time put your phone down |
| 0:23.9 | tombollah open for fun terms apply 18 plus gamble aware dot org my heroes were the big mega church pastors |
| 0:32.3 | you know the rick warrens and the bill highbles my whole identity was wrapped up and being the rock star youth pastor that could |
| 0:38.4 | snap his fingers and hundreds of kids would give their life to Jesus. I'm saying to them, but the Bible |
| 0:42.9 | says this. The Bible says that. And they're like, well, that's just your interpretation of the Bible. |
| 0:46.3 | We've got our scholars and they say, this is okay. He got to the part and he goes, Jesus took bread. |
| 0:50.8 | He gave it to his disciples and he said, take this, this represents my body. |
| 0:57.1 | And I felt like the Lord's speaking to me going, you know that's not what I said. |
| 1:01.4 | It led to a very, very dark time because I felt like I wanted to be Catholic. |
| 1:03.9 | I felt like it was the truth, but I didn't feel like I could do it. |
| 1:05.8 | Like the rich young ruler who went away sad. |
| 1:06.9 | So I said no. |
| 1:14.6 | Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the Lila Rose show. Today I'm sitting down with Keith Nestor, |
| 1:19.8 | who is the founder in the head of down-to-earth ministry. He is a podcaster. He's an author, and he has a really amazing faith story. His whole world is how to share the faith with people |
| 1:25.3 | that aren't already in the faith and be a witness for |
| 1:28.4 | the love of Christ. As always, don't forget to subscribe to the show, wherever you listen to your |
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