You often hear about well-known Protestants and evangelicals becoming Catholic or Eastern Orthodox,

but you rarely hear about well-known Catholics or Orthodox becoming Protestant.

And I'm not the only one who's noticed this.

This 2024 article in Christianity today says,

A number of high-profile Christians have converted to Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy.

What is driving them away?

And this video from a YouTuber named Dylan Baker asks the question, is the Protestant

church dying?

In today's episode, we're going to focus on one element behind some of these conversions

that I call the Protestant worship problem.

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First, I'll share some of Dylan's video where he talks about being disenchanted with Protestant

worship services.

But I'm not sure that that's the response that if someone who never came to Christianity

was to step in one of these mega churches, if they would say, man, I felt Jesus, I felt the

spirit there.

There's something different about that place. They're probably saying, man, that felt Jesus. I felt the spirit there. There's something different about that place.

They're probably saying, man, that was like a kind of cheap concert with a TED talk.

And I would have guessed this was like a conference rather than a Christian service.

And that sucks. That really sucks. And what people truly want is

simplicity. Now to be fair to Protestants, what Dylan is describing isn't indicative of

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