Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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For Protestants who visit a Catholic Mass, it can be a disorienting experience. The preaching is often short, the spacing of the songs is different than most Protestant services, and the responses of the congregation can seem overly formal to Evangelical ears.

So what are Catholics supposed to get out of all of that?

JonMarc Grodi talks to former Methodist pastor Keith Nester about how he came to appreciate the structure and purpose of the Mass, and some of the ways that visitors or new Catholics can better understand how to enter into the worship of God in a liturgical setting.

Watch the full episode: chnetwork.org/deep-in-christ/a-methodist-pastors-hunger-for-the-eucharist-episode-91

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