![]() ![]() His name is Jesus, and that's who I choose." He's the only man that has been loyal to me. He's the only man that didn't sleep with my best friend. Ruiz added: "Even though I might be tempted every day, I choose Jesus. But the Word of God now shows me that now I get to respond to it. It's not like the Enemy came to my bed and said 'Hey, fill out these lists of sins and we're going to work with them for the rest of your life.' No, I didn't get to choose. "One thing that the LGBTQ has, and it's really good, is that they didn't get to choose. "The reason that I'm here is because I had a mother and a father that never compromised the Gospel, that prayed and prayed and believed not in my situation but in my destiny," Ruiz said, receiving cheers from the crowd. Ruiz, who was also born into a Christian home and raised in the faith, credited his parents for their faithfulness. We have learned what true love is in Jesus Christ, that our identity is not in our sexuality but it is in Jesus," he said.Ī move of God is at hand among those who have been set free from sexual sin, those at the Freedom March stressed. He elaborated that true deliverance and freedom in Christ means that when temptation to sin comes, as it does, to face it and say: "I don't want you, I want Jesus."Ĭolon met Ruiz the night of the Pulse shooting and had no idea that nearly three years later they would be in ministry together, a ministry called Fearless Identity. ![]() And when I leave here alive I am going to worship you for the rest of my life." So tonight I am not leaving here dead, Lord. "You promised my mom that baby inside of her womb was special and had a purpose in his life. You promised me that there was a ministry in my future," Colon said. You promised me that I had a purpose in life. And I started prophetically speaking my life and said 'Lord, I am not leaving this building dead tonight. Colon was shot several times that night and was unable to move. As bullets flew and bodies started falling all around him, he drew upon the faith he was raised in and began to declare that he was not going to leave the nightclub dead. ![]() | Photo: The Christian PostĮven as the shooter was gunning down dozens of people that night in the nightclub in Orlando, Colon tapped into that authority. next to the Washington D.C., May 25, 2019. Taking the stage together in the 80-degree heat, Colon stressed that God has given believers authority to shake the foundation of the nation's capital and to proclaim to the nation that "change is possible in Christ." Freedom Marchers conclude their march around Washington, D.C. They made a point to offer repentance and ask for forgiveness on behalf of the church to LGBT-identified persons, expressing their heart to reach out and believing that a move of the Holy Spirit is at hand. WASHINGTON - Two survivors of the 2016 Pulse nightclub mass shooting who no longer identify as gay are inviting Christians to repent for how the church has treated LGBT-identified persons in the past.īefore approximately 200 persons at the Sylvan Theater near the Washington Monument for the Freedom March, Angel Colon and Luis Javier Ruiz shared part of their own journeys out of homosexual lives and into the Kingdom of God. For example, one individual described removing all of their pride pins from their school bag, while another canceled their plans to come out to their friends and family that month.Pulse nightclub shooting survivors Angel Colon (L) and Luiz Javier Ruiz (R) speak at the Freedom March at the Sylvan Theater in Washington, D.C. If they did venture out, they described removing any visible markers of their identity. This awareness that they could lose their lives simply for being a member of the LGBTQ community led some to avoid leaving the house for days or weeks following the shooting. One participant noted: "I feel as though I have lost 49 family members." Many felt as though it could have just as easily happened to them - perhaps they had been at the Pulse club recently, or perhaps they had been at their own local gay bar celebrating the launch of pride month that very night. In addition to extreme grief, people expressed feelings of guilt over experiencing so much grief for a loss that technically 'was not their own.' Yet, at the same time, many described the sense of loss as akin to having lost family members. ![]()
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