Pedro describes his ten-year addiction routine: stealing Coca-Cola at work to buy daily alcohol and drugs.
1. Entre la Vida y la Biblia, hosted by Pastor Alfonso Quevedo, devotes this episode to the personal conversion testimony of Pedro Parra, a church planter in Bogotá's María Paz neighborhood.
2. Pedro Parra is a guest and active ministry leader who is near graduation from the Seminario Bíblico de las Asambleas de Dios and is planting a congregation in the María Paz sector.
3. The episode's core thesis is that God can produce total, instantaneous transformation in any person, illustrated through Pedro's decade-long addiction and overnight deliverance.
4. Pedro grew up in a Christian home with four siblings but began hiding his Bible at age 12–13, officially leaving the church at 16 when he decided it was 'no necesario volver más.'
5. He started drinking at 16 and began smoking marijuana at 17, sneaking through a hole in his school's locked bathrooms to use with friends.
6. By his early twenties, his daily routine at a Coca-Cola job included stealing product cases with coworkers and channeling all money to alcohol and cocaine suppliers.
7. A typical day ran from 5am work shifts in Guayabao through drug and alcohol use until 1–2am, seven days a week, a pattern he maintained for approximately six years.
8. At 21, Pedro fathered his first daughter, but the relationship with the mother collapsed largely due to his addiction, including episodes of drunken blackouts and violent altercations with neighbors.
9. At his worst, Pedro was smoking 12–15 marijuana cigarettes daily, waking at 4am to get high before work, and using cocaine and alcohol every weekend.
10. He returned to night school, completed his bachillerato, and there met Claudia Serrano, 17, who became pregnant within two months of their relationship.
11. Claudia told Pedro her own father had been an alcoholic who never changed and that she refused to raise a child in the same environment, which Pedro says was his turning point.
12. A neighbor invited Pedro to a revival campaign led by Pastor Hugo Henao, and Pedro says the sermon 'me estaba hablando a mí'—felt personally directed at him.
13. Pedro walked out of the two-hour culto in tears and says that from that night, all addictions to cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine 'murieron automáticamente.'
14. He dates his conversion to a Holy Week culto roughly 20 years ago and says he has never relapsed or been tempted to return.
15. Pedro attributes the breakthrough partly to his mother and sister, who fasted two to three days at a time for approximately seven years, praying specifically for Pedro and his older brother.
16. Both brothers converted at the same revival campaign, which Pedro frames as confirmation that sustained intercessory prayer produces results.
17. Pastor Quevedo and Pedro speak in a warm, conversational interview style, with Quevedo drawing out specific details and occasionally offering brief theological commentary.
18. The tone is earnest and Pentecostal in orientation, with emotional moments including Pedro describing his blackouts and his gratitude for Claudia's ultimatum.
19. This episode is best suited to Spanish-speaking evangelical and Pentecostal listeners interested in addiction recovery testimonies and personal faith narratives.
20. Listeners who prefer secular recovery frameworks or do not engage with explicitly Christian content will find little outside the faith context.
