Mike Schroeder Testimony

Personal Testimony of a Lost Believer

At age 42, at Pineview Bible Camp in Selma, Alabama, in the dark of night, alone in my camp cot, I came to the point of acknowledging that while I was indeed a believer, I was a “lost believer” having believed in vain, because I had never placed my complete trust in the finished work of Jesus Christ. I could clearly see that all my so called “good deeds” from being christened to full emersion baptism were as Paul stated in Phil. 3:8, “but dung.” I had to admit to myself, my own self-righteous religious hypocrisy. I finally saw myself as I really was, a sinner in need of a Savior. At that moment of time, without any activity on my part or any assistance from another person, I simply trusted in what I already knew and had believed all along, that Christ did die for my sins and that what he had done was the total and sufficient payment and that there was nothing for me to do, indeed there was nothing I could do, except gratefully receive the free gift of salvation and eternal life, knowing assuredly that from that moment forward, I was sealed by the holy Spirit until the Lord calls me home to be with him forever. What joy, what comfort, what sweet sweet peace! It was amazing grace and blessed assurance all rolled into one!