Complex sentence: Since I'm Jewish, I'd never met a pastor before in my life, so I was a bit nervous, but I saw we have a lot in common-he told me that he uses crowd-sourced wisdom to create his Sunday sermons.
Split into simpler sentences: Since I'm Jewish, I'd never met a pastor before in my life. But I saw we have a lot in common-he told me that he uses crowd-sourced wisdom to create his Sunday sermons.