October is a strange month, neither summer nor winter; it belongs to that twilight season we call autumn. By the end of the month the first of winter's chilling winds sweep down from the great northern forests. Change is on its way, and winter will soon be here. It was on just such an October evening in 1963, with one of those premature winter winds blowing against me, that I made my way to a small United Pentecostal Church. My spiritual quest was ending and I was coming home to the original deposit of Faith; a Faith which the Apostle Paul called "the whole counsel of God." This search for Truth had begun for me in the Baptist Church and would soon find its fulfillment within the doors of that little congregation, Within moments I would hear the Pastor invoking the sacred name of Christ upon me as he lowered me into the baptismal waters. I would then be part of a religious movement that my ancestors did not know, and my family did not understand. For awhile I would have to stand alone. That was thirty years ago and I am still standing for the same Truth I discovered on that long ago October night.
Another young man, one whom I have never met, also claims an October evening as a turning point in his life. For him, however, its significance is derived not by what he accepted, but by what he finally rejected. Standing in a church parking lot on an October night in 1976 he claims to have received a revelation taht caused him to leave the United Pentecostal Church and renounce its teachings. He feels he heard from Heaven. If what he heard is "true" then what I embraced on an earlier October night is not. The book you now hold in your hands is a Oneness response to that "Parking Lot Revelation" and a defense of the Faith that was delivered to me in October of 1963, and for which I am prepared "to give every man an answer for the hope that lieth within me."