Evangelist Chris Hustler's Testimony In 1979, I was working in an open cut  coal mine, and part-time at a an Indoor Swimming Centre.  I was living hard on booze, brawling, bouncing in hotels, being what I thought a "real" bloke ought to be.  I had no no real joy, though I chased hard for it in all forms...drinking, drugs, women, music, work, travel, money and on and on.  Nothing I tried satisfied the emptiness in my heart. The gnawing ache of being riddled with guilt and shame because of wrong choices, broken hearts, unfulfilled dreams and sinful living, along with that sense of wanting "something", was driving me further from family and friends.  I guess you could say at 23 years old I had had a bash at many things, but had nothing to show for it all. What a mess. My drinking and brawling and filthy life and language had left me very empty and very alone. Through a friend I was invited to the first evening service that was going to be held at a new independent Baptist church, about 30 miles from where I lived.   When the young lady arrived to pick me up, it was 3 pm, and I had been home about 2 hours after a loud, wet pub crawl home from work that started the day before.  Despite the stink, she graciously waited for me to "clean up" and I went to church. I did not have any idea what I was going for.  That night the preacher, a little Englishman, preached from the text, “... And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God... “. Wow!!! What a preacher. I thought somebody must have rung him up and told him my life story, and now here he was telling the … Continue reading Men’s Breakfast (Evangelist Chris Hustler)