[Michael The Disciple]

I accepted Jesus as a hippie in 1974. I devoured his word day and night and April 3 1974 I had an experience with tongues and prophecy. I had not starting attending Church yet and the only Christians I knew were my Grandma and Aunt. I had never been in a Pentecostal Church in my life. I did not realize this was the baptism of the Spirit.

Eventually I started going to Church in various groups. Everyone believed in Trinity so I assumed I did too. After all it was taught that if you did not believe in it you were a cult person. One day my cousin came by who was married to a Oneness Pentecostal. He gave me a few scriptures on Oneness.

It had the ring of truth to it but I think I did not understand Trinity enough to see a lot of difference. Several years later I accepted baptism in Jesus name because I could see thats how the Apostles baptized. This was in a Charismatic Church. They were not Oneness at that time so I was baptized still not knowing the full revelation.

I moved on to another Pentecostal/Charismatic group in 1979. Also Trinitarian. Around then my wife was invited to a UPC Bible study. She went a few times and brought back some Eddie Jones tracts a Oneness Preacher from Linden Louisiana.

I started studying them and to my shock I had never really understood the Trinity was 3 co equal co eternal persons each distinct from the other!

As I poured over the tracts I began to wake up to the truth. I was almost convinced at that time and knew I was not Trinitarian. I called the Pastor back in the Charismatic Church where I was baptized to see what he was teaching.

He had himself just come under the Oneness teaching as presented by John Eckstat of the UPC. He presented it at Church shortly after and I attended. It was altogether glorious and magnificent! The tracts from Eddie Jones had been strong enough to help me see Trinity was wrong and Oneness had to be true.

But when this Pastor brought out the revelation about the LOGOS being the invisible God himself in the Old Testament it just nailed it so powerfully I fully embraced it.

To this day I would rather teach on Oneness than any other topic. It just magnifies Jesus to the highest place in the Universe....exactly where he should be!