What happens when grace rewrites your story from the inside out?

In this second conversation, Pastor Katie Langston joins Tara Beth Leach and Mark Quanstrom to share how the gospel of grace led her from Mormonism to the waters of baptism and into the freedom of ministry. Katie opens up about her conversion, her calling as a Lutheran pastor, and why she now preaches grace as the Church’s most radical gift in an anxious world.

🎙️ In This Episode:

• How Katie’s baptism became a moment of real deliverance
• Why law and gospel must be preached together—but not confused
• The tangible grace of communion for weary believers
• The temptation to prove worthiness—even in ministry
• How pastors can rest in being “sealed” by Christ’s finished work

⏱️ Timestamps:

03:00 – Discovering grace as a lived reality, not a doctrine

08:00 – Luther Seminary and finding home in the Lutheran story

11:00 – Baptism as exorcism and renewal

15:00 – Learning to preach grace in a law-driven world

18:00 – Pastoral care and the non-anxious presence of the gospel

20:00 – Communion as Christ given “for you”

24:00 – Why every culture worships worthiness

26:00 – “You are sealed to Christ forever.”

Grace doesn’t ask for your worthiness; it gives it.

Katie’s story reminds pastors and believers alike that baptism marks us with the promise of a God who will never, ever let us go.