El cristiano no está llamado a un edificio, a una hora o lugar especifico. El cristiano está llamado a una relación intima con Dios y a una verdadera y profunda relación los unos con los otros. A través de los siglos le hemos puesto un énfasis hipérbole a estructuras y hemos minimizado el amor y el compañerismo que estamos llamados a tener los unos por los otros. Los discípulos de Cristo están llamados a ser familia y amigos en compañerismo sincero, los unos con los otros. No estamos llamados a invitar personas a edificios, sino a nuestras vidas en devociones santas: “Y perseveraban en la doctrina de los apóstoles, en la comunión unos con otros, en el partimiento del pan y en las oraciones.” Hechos 2:42 (Reina Velera 1960)
Esta es la sencillez de nuestras vidas como discípulos de Cristo: 1) perseverar en la Palabra juntos, 2) estar en comunión los unos con los otros y 3) orar juntos. Así de sencillo es este asunto de la Iglesia. Mas hemos sido testigos de un enorme y triste despilfarro de dinero donde nos sentamos semanalmente a ver un espectáculo, muchas veces, mal producido.
Las Iglesias Megas no son bíblicas, pero no tan solo ellas, sino toda Iglesia que sigue la estructura Constantina. El Emperador Constantino le hizo daño a la Iglesia, me atrevo a decir, más que ningún otro ser humano en la historia del mundo. El legalizó su idea del cristianismo y mezcló la Iglesia con lo profano. Muchos tienen buenas intenciones y no conocen nada más, pero mi pregunta es, si eres un hombre de Dios que estudia la Palabra, ¿dónde puedes justificar lo que se ha hecho con la Iglesia? ¿Dónde encuentras esta iglesia institucionalizada en el Nuevo Testamento?
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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