Testimony of Mike Schroeder

I got saved (committed my trust to the Lord Jesus Christ and his atoning work at Calvary to pay for my sins) on the first Monday evening in June, 1985. I was 38 years old. Although I had been brought up in a church denomination, and joined another one later on as an adult I never, until that day, had any assurance concerning my eternal destiny.

After getting saved I joined another denomination, but being now lead of the Spirit, quickly saw that it was no different than the other one I had enjoined myself to in the past, and departed to bounce around in fundamentalist evangelical fellowships for the next nine years. Through one of these associations I met a young man who began to show me (in Scripture) something he referred to as “the mystery.” After attending a few of this brother’s Bible classes, I began to see the distinctive nature of the Pauline revelation, and began to gain an understanding of what it meant to “rightly divide the word of truth.”

This association lead me to Brother Jerry Lockhart’s ministry in New Braunfels, Texas, where I spent the next six years under his teaching becoming established in the truth of Paul’s gospel. Then, in April, 2001, I answered the call to preach, taking over one of Brother Lockhart’s ministries in Corpus Christi, Texas, where my wife Jean and I now reside, conducting two classes a week in Corpus. I was ordained in Brother Lockhart’s fellowship, Berean Bible Church, in 2008.  Since then my life has been devoted to "making all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery." (Eph. 3:9).  In the interest of this effort, I published a book concerning this topic, 85 Pages In The Bible, in 2004,