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Here is the amazing true story of how JESUS SAVED ME from Hell. It shares my life before accepting Jesus Christ, how I came to know Christ, and my life after being saved.

NON-BELIEVER
I was born Peter Louis-Dominic Fachini in Detroit, Michigan, in 1969. I was a young Italian-American boy raised Roman Catholic. Although our family loved each other bery much, I always felt I was missing something. I remember trying to improve myself to earn love from everyone around me. I had read some of the Bible while growing up, but I didn't believe God existed.

TEEN REBEL
As a teenager, I tried to fill the emptiness I felt inside with ,"sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll". At age 16, I shaved my head into a Mohawk haircut (I thought I was so cool)! But in reality, I was unhealthy and disliked. At 6ft 2in tall, I weighed only 135 pounds. After being sick in bed for about two weeks, I decided to try a new drug: bodybuilding steroids. I started lifting weights, and within six months, I weighed 190 pounds.

QUICK FIX
I thought I discovered the answer to all my problems. As I became stronger, women became more attracted to me. And it seemed like everyone wanted to be my friend! But soon, I found myself addicted to steroids, cigarettes, alcohol and other drugs again. Around age 21, I wanted "success", so I started studying psychology and human behaviour. By age 24, I had read over 500 self-help books and even wrote and self-published a book myself. Thanks to my so-called knowledge, I quit drinking and doing drugs. But my new problem was I thought I was better than everyone else.

SELF-CENTERED
I really thought I knew it all. Believing I was "God" of my universe, I became very self-centered. And I was proud to call myself an "atheist" (someone who dosn't believe in God). At age 25, I was bored. So I turned back to cigarettes, alcohol and drugs. But this time, it would get much worse. I became a bartender and a stripper. I still did not believe in God. But i was worshipping the "God " of "pleasure". What "God"do you worship? By age 27, I was bankrupt, had been divorced three times (with three children), and my health was failing. As a last resort, I joined the United states Marine Corps to turn my life around.

ANOTHER CHANCE
During basic training, I quit cigarettes and alcohol by replacing them with the Marine Corps. But I was lonely. So after graduation from "boot camp", I started smoking, drinking and haveing sex before marriage again. On New Year's Eve of 1998, while throwing up from drinking alcohol, I cried, "Jesus, please help me! I keep making the same mistakes!" When I woke up the next morning, I felt peacful inside, with no desire to smoke or drink. It seemend like God had given me another chance. Finally, I relaized I could not save myself. Although I wasn't a born-again Christian yet, I started to believe God might actually exist.

SOULMATE
I began going to church, but I did not ask Jesus into my heart yet, so I was still very self-centered. One night, I went to play pool at the game hall on base and noticed the most beautiful woman I had ever seen! She was an adorable, 20-year-old, Chinese-American wearing blue-jean coveralls. I introduced myself, and she said her name was Sabrina. She told me she had been a born-again Christian since age 13 and was still a virgin saving herself for her soulmate. We soon fell in love and married only one month later.

WIFE-CENTERED
Next, I became wife-centered. I called myself a Christian, but since I was in love, I didn't think there was anything missing in my life. Then my wife and I had to got to different military schools (she was also a Marine). Instead of turning to Jesus, I turned back to alcohol to numbe my loneliness. To say the least, I wasn't a good husband. When my wife came to visit, I told her I didn't deserve her, and I wanted a divorce. But she refused to divorce me. She said she loved me no matter what, and that God made marriage to last forever. She hugged me, and we both cried.

LEGAL TROUBLE
I tried to change but couldn't. Then I was punished by the Marine Corps for drinking alcohol during lunch. I lost my freedom for 45 days (but it was a blessing from God, because it forced me to stop drinking). At first, I rebelled against the Marine Corps, and I wanted out of the military! When I told my wife about my problems, she cried deeply. She had trusted me, but I had been lying to her. It was the worst pain I had ever felt. To my amazement, she soon forgave me.

LAST CHANCE
My wife's pain motivated me to start seeking God. Because I knew I could not be a good husband for her on my own. So I started to read the Holy Bible. I began to understand God's loving plan to save everyone through Jesus Christ. As I studied the Bible, I thought, "I'll pretend God really exists. Then I will see if it makes a difference in my life". To my surprise, God began to speak to me through the Holy Bible. But I still wasn't saved, because I continued to trust in myself to change.

BORN-AGAIN
Six months later, at age 29, I was finally saved in church one day. As the pastor had us bow our heads, he asked if anyone wanted to receive Jesus Christ into their hearts. Then he led us in a prayer.

FORGIVEN
When I preayed, tears flooded my eyes as I thought about all the times I came so close to killing myself, but God had always protected me. As I surrendered my entire will and pride to God, I felt the warmth of the Holy Spirit enter my heart. I experienced God's pure love and his total forgiveness of my evil past.

JESUS SAVES
I knew I was saved because I finally put all my faith and trust in Jesus Christ alone! It was the most important decision of my life. I was baptized on 27th June 1999.

CHRIST -CENTERED
Thanks to God, I am now Christ-centered and very healthy. My born-again, legally-changed name is David Christian, and I am blessed to say, "I love the Lord Jesus Christ". Sabrina and I are happily married and faithfully committed to each other through Christ (if God did not send her, I may have been lost forever). I love and keep in touch with my three children. I do not smoke, drink or do harmful drugs. I still lift weights, but now I train naturally. I enjoy being a United States Marine, and was recently promoted as a military news reporter. Finally, the Lord has put it on my heart to "help share the good news of Jesus Christ" through a new, toll-free phone number and web site, called: 1-866-jesus.org.c

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