Why This Baptist Pastor Left—and Couldn't Become Catholic | Javier Perdomo

Javier Perdomo discusses his journey from Baptist evangelicalism into Lutheranism, the online apologetics world, and the deep questions that lead many young Christians toward Rome, Orthodoxy, or confessional Lutheranism. Check Out Our New Website: https://ontheline.net/ Support the Launch of LIT: https://institute.ontheline.net/donat... Visit Memento: https://memento70.com/ Contact Bryan: bryan.stecker@ontheline.net About Today’s Guest Javier Perdomo is a Lutheran writer and YouTube creator whose work focuses on theology, church history, apologetics, and the claims of Rome and Eastern Orthodoxy. 🔗 Stay Connected with Us 📷 Instagram: @otl_podcast_ 📘 Facebook: facebook.com/onthelinepod 𝕏 Twitter/X: @otl_podcast_ 0:00 Javier Perdomo’s YouTube channel and background 2:02 Covid, Catholic Answers, and the start of ecclesial anxiety 5:03 Looking for answers from evangelical pastors 7:33 James White, Gavin Ortlund, and Protestant apologetics online 11:06 Striving Side by Side and discovering Lutheran voices 12:00 Jordan Cooper, Bryan Wolfmueller, and the Lutheran answer 14:43 Finding a local Lutheran pastor and reading the Book of Concord 17:04 Starting a YouTube channel to help answer Rome 20:58 Realizing he was becoming Lutheran 26:14 What stood out about Lutheranism 31:27 Diagnosing American evangelicalism 33:21 Forgiveness won versus forgiveness delivered 40:30 Revivalism, pietism, mysticism, and enthusiasm 52:14 Assurance, baptism, and the danger of looking inward 1:00:25 The Lord’s Supper, absolution, and objective comfort 1:08:21 Emotional manipulation and evangelical worship culture 1:16:07 Why Lutheran worship can look “dead” to evangelicals 1:17:37 Sacraments as God’s gifts rather than man’s work 1:28:41 Rome Examined and Martin Chemnitz 1:32:02 Are Protestants mass-converting to Rome? 1:38:09 What the conversion numbers actually suggest 1:44:32 Social media, algorithms, and false conversion narratives 1:56:10 Catholic media influence and the possibility of a lag effect 2:02:22 Looking past the Roman Catholic apologetics facade 2:04:31 Holiness, history, authority, and why evangelicals look to Rome 2:11:24 Tangible grace and the quest for certainty 2:14:47 Why Lutheranism answers these hungers without becoming Roman 2:17:52 The Reformation as recovery, not innovation 2:24:29 Apostolic succession and Roman Catholic historical claims 3:23:18 Scripture, clarity, and how clear passages interpret unclear ones 3:24:31 Chemnitz on tradition and the claims of Rome