"But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:" 1 Peter 3:15 (KJV)
I heard two very famous preachers say that good folks can get save without knowing Jesus. They said that with a straight face; one of those preachers was Rev. Billy Graham. It should not be a surprise then that regular folks in the church find themselves either confuse about foundational doctrines or, believing the same thing Rev. Graham believed.
As mentioned before, when we come up with a different Gospel we are coming up with an alternative to Christ. Later with are going to see that God does not take these alternatives lightly.
To establish that Jesus is the only way to the Father is not a complicated thing; it does not require years of theological study. In John 14:6 Jesus tells us himself “…I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (NIV)
What more do you need to establish that Jesus is the only way to the Father? To say that somebody can make it to heaven without knowing Jesus is simply heresy. You may say, “but Angel, what about those folks who live in remote places where nobody is preaching the Gospel?” That is God’s issue, not ours. God will save whomever He wants to save. We learned in the last article that salvation is fully the work of God. Is there is anything too hard for God?
An independent thinker with a profound call to see the orthodoxy of the church and passion for Christ manifesting together. Angel was born in Brooklyn, New York in April of 1968, he was raised on the beautiful island of Puerto Rico where he earned his B.S. degree in Sociology with a minor in Education from the Inter American University in San Germán in 1991. That same year he moved to Jacksonville, Florida. After working construction jobs for a year and learning the English language, his first job working with foster-care children in the capacity of youth care worker was with Jacksonville Youth Sanctuary in September of 1992. With JYS he was promoted several times as group home supervisor, legal caseworker, and program director.
While in Jacksonville, Angel studied a couple of martial arts styles. After earning his black belt, he became the founder of Good Fight Ministries as he used martial arts as an instrument to preach the gospel. In 2004 Angel was selected Martial Arts Instructor of the Year for the State of Florida and in 2005 Angel was inducted in the USA Martial Arts Hall of Fame where he also received the Christian Spirit Award. In July of 2005 Angel accepted his call to pastor a bilingual church in Winton, NC where he served for a couple of years. Five months later he lost his first wife to cancer in December of that same year. This initiated a deep valley of suffering in his life, a mountain of costly mistakes and the embracing of lifestyles of sin that are well documented through this blog.
In August of 2012 Angel moved to Fairbanks Alaska with his wife Rayette Casiano and six children who are now adults. In Alaska, Angel continued his social work-related career and his ministry of preaching, teaching and writing. Angel is the author of two books, Hope for the divorcee: Forgiving and Moving Forward and 7 Banderas de Esperanza: La Bendición de Yokdzonot.
In January 8th of 2020 Angel and his wife moved to Arizona. On June 8th 2021 Angel started his home church, not as a starting point, but as a closer way to how the church is suppose to look like according to Scripture.
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