“El discípulo de Cristo es libre mediante el conocimiento de la verdad”
y conoceréis la verdad, y la verdad os hará libres. Juan 8:32 (RVR1960)
Si estás viviendo una vida llena de ataduras, sin gozo, sin paz ni fruto, necesitas ser salvo o, ser correctamente discipulado. Esa verdad no es simplemente una experiencia intelectual, pero tiene el poder de transformar nuestras almas. Esto es lo que nos hace creyentes. En un momento dado en nuestras vidas teníamos otras creencias y, nuestras vidas eran guiadas por esas creencias, mas ahora conocemos la verdad y esa verdad nos guía a la libertad.
Sin Cristo vivimos en mentiras tal como el mundo vive en mentiras, en pretensiones, imágenes y máscaras. El discípulo verdadero vive en verdad y se desata de pretensiones que causan innecesarias presiones en la vida. De hecho, estoy convencido de que uno de los obstáculos más fuertes en contra del discipulado, es porque muchos no quieren que nadie se les acerque mucho y que vean lo que realmente son. En la distancia es más fácil pretender que somos lo que no somos.
La verdadera libertad nos lleva a un lugar de sinceridad, en donde confesamos nuestros pecados; en donde confiamos en el hermano y le confesamos aún nuestras tentaciones. Es en esa atmosfera de familia, de amistad, de hermandad y de temor a Dios es en donde verdaderamente crecemos; en donde verdaderamente maduramos. Es en esa atmosfera en donde encontramos y mantenemos nuestra libertad. Es por eso por lo que, como discípulos de Cristo, aunque vivimos en este mundo, no somos de este mundo, ni nos sométemelos a la cultura de este mundo.
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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