I remember running up this mountain and I just fell on my knees and I just said Lord I love you so much.

Do whatever you have to do in my life just make me useful for you.

But six weeks later I find myself at the bottom of a cliff with a broken spine.

People say oh did you lose your faith? And I sometimes say,

yes, I did. I lost my faith in a small god who existed for my happiness. And I gained the faith

in a much bigger God who exists for his glory. Welcome, everybody. This is Simon Gilbeau

with inspired. Oh, I love these times we have together. Listen, if you're new to us, we get relentlessly bombarded, don't we? With bad news in the media that just makes us more cynical and fearful and depressed and anxious. In the Western world, we're riddle with anxiety and fear and that sort of stuff. And what we need is actually an antidote to that is hearing good news. It's hearing stories of people doing fantastic stuff in all sorts of walks of life. And I've got no doubt this week, you're going to be both inspired and challenged as we talk to my friend Christian Hacking. Welcome, Christian. Thanks for having me. It's good to be here. It's so good to have you. Well, listen, guys,

so I first came across Christian, and I let him tell the story. It was back in, and I think about 2009, what's that, 16, 17 years ago, in an airport. He was off to change the world. And subsequently for the last eight years, he's been an activist. Things changed dramatically when he had a serious climbing accident.

And yet it hasn't stopped him living life to the full.

He's... is he's been an activist. Things changed dramatically when he had a serious climbing accident.

And yet it hasn't stopped him living life to the full. He's married, he's got four beautiful

children. And I think I'll stop there, Christian. Let's go right back. How did you come to faith?

How did I come to faith? Ah, okay, right. So I got brought up in a non-Christian home, despite my

name being Christian.

I was named after the South African general, Hans Christian Smuts, who's one of the lesser-known statues in Parliament Square.

But I came to faith around the age of 14.

This was following a kind of period in my life, I had this anxiety for a few years about, it was actually to do, specifically to do nuclear war.

And I was resting with this idea, what happens if we just all get wiped out?

And it was causing me a huge amount of anxiety.

And I remember there was an ex-Marine who was working at the prep school that I was educated at, and he explained to me the nuclear defence shield, which when you know the details, is hardly comforting. And there was a chaplain, an amazing man called Richard Pesker, in the room. And he was listening to this conversation. And then

once the Royal Marine had finished his spiel, the chaplain opened up Psalm 18 to me and said, well,

do you know, there's a God who describes himself as a rock, as a fortress, as a salvation, as a

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