Luis Ruiz heard the gunshots, smelled the gunpowder, and felt sheer terror as a gunman brutally mowed down 49 people inside Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, FL in June of 2016. Ruiz barely escaped with his life. Now, he says Jesus is his personal Savior and he’s no longer gay. “I should have been number 50!” Ruiz wrote in a Facebook post. “Going through old pictures of the night of Pulse, I remember my
struggles of perversion, heavy drinking to drown out everything and having promiscuous sex that led to HIV,” he continued. “The enemy had its grip, and now God has taken me from that moment and has given me Christ Jesus. I’ve grown to know His love in a deeper level. 2 out of the 49 were my close friends and are no longer with us. They lost their life that night. I should have been number 50 but now I have the chance to live in relationship and not religion. READ MORE
