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I Did It His Way – a review by Tony Flanders (an excerpt from FIEC’s Together” Magazine – autumn 2009) 

God changes lives.  Understatement of the year, but wonderfully true.  God does change lives in a magnificent and precious way. 

In this autobiographical account, “I Did It His Way”, Hugh Hill demonstrates this fact in a gripping and relevant way.  He is honest in all he says, seeking to paint a picture of what God has done in and through his life.  Throughout the book we find a person who has come to love the Jesus who has saved him, and wants to live his life His way. 

Hugh takes us from his materialistic and alcoholic days to his conversion.  We see God who not only saves through His Son, but also breaks the power of sin and addiction. We then see Hugh mould his business life according to the priorities of Christ, and the real ways God intervenes in various situations.  Eventually we find Hugh working briefly for CPO prior to his call to the Christian ministry. 

This book is not about what a man can do, but what a difference God makes in a person’s life and can do through them.  This aspect is greatly helped by various testimonies interspersed through the book describing various experiences of family members, as well as colleagues and those affected by his pastoral ministry.   

It will encourage any reader, whether pastor, church member or unbeliever, of what God can do for them, in them and through them.  It clearly shows what a change God does make in the lives of ordinary people.

I Did It His Way – a review by Tony Flanders (an excerpt from FIEC’s Together” Magazine – autumn 2009) 

Extract from Evangelicals Now Magazine January 2009

This is a book to stir your faith. It will encourage you to trust in a God who is mighty in working to change lives. And that is surely something we all need to know more of. 

It is about Hugh Hill and how God saved him, moulded him and used him. In our world of indifference I found it so stirring to read of God coming and converting a 42-year-old successful businessman with a drink problem. 

In the opening parts of the book I wondered if everything was going almost too well for Hugh. But then we read of the collapse of the business and how God used this to open up another phase in Hugh’s life. 

The book then is a real page-turner as God’s grace is so demonstrably seen. The testimonies of those connected with Hugh in different phases of his experience add colour and insight into how God worked in Hugh’s life. 

One minor criticism would be that I felt the book petered out somewhat. It was almost as if it did not know where to stop. Drawing a line at the point when Hugh first served as a pastor and picking the story about his pastoral ministry up in a further book might have been more effective. I, for one, would love to read such a book about God working with Hugh in pastoral service. 

Nevertheless, here is a book to read. Please get it, read it and be encouraged. God is alive and can do for many others what he has done for Hugh. Praise the LORD! 

Philip Venables, Feltham Evangelical Church, Middlesex

"In many ways this is an extraordinary book written in a most readable fashion.  I virtually went through the 200 pages in one session which for me is a rarity.  (I usually have several books to wade through all the time).   Hugh Hill writes as he speaks in the language of ordinary people and with some rare insights. 

The story of Hugh’s conversation has been shared with hundreds of people across the United Kingdom.   I first came across him when he was a relatively new Christian, Circumstances which he unpacks caused him to leave Glasgow and head to the coastal resort of Worthing which he dubs as ‘not exactly the ends of the earth’!  Here he commenced work with the CPO an organisation committed to Christian Literature he also joined the church which I pastored for nearly thirty years.  He showed marked signs of leadership and an obvious preaching gift.  I encouraged him to attend the London Theological Seminary, a course well geared to allow him also to superintend our branch church on a working class estate.  

His experience as a businessman with its successes and failures along with the attendant problems of alcoholism was to give him a rare background to draw on in the future. He received in the university of life an education which even the benefits of LTS could not equal.  The threat also of a broken marriage in his pre Christian days would give him great sensitivity as a pastor.  His radical John-Newton-type conversion is proof of the power of the gospel in the life of an ordinary person. Billy Graham is quoted as saying that one can argue against a theology but not against a changed life.  

As for style, the book is unusually if not uniquely constructed.  Not only does the author unravel his story and follow the twists and turns of his journey he gives room for testimony of those who have accompanied him – his wife, son and daughter. He brings in folk whose lives impacted him and those he too has impacted. Their accounts serve as little capsules of God’s grace which show how a single life affects others. As John Donne put it, ‘no man is an island entire in himself’.  

This is not a book of systematic theology but it is a winsome presentation of the outworking of biblical truth in the experience of the writer, a modest compendium of practical theology which plainly explains the Gospel and will prove be an excellent evangelistic tool.  Story telling as a vehicle for conveying truth is a well know method for successful communication. And this is not only a rattling good story it unpacks the work of the Spirit of God in the experience of a man whose life was well nigh shipwrecked by the time he was forty.

I have tracked the pilgrimage of Hugh Hill as an evangelist and pastor. I have witnessed churches being born and renewed as a result of his compelling ministry and observed how a man of conservative dress and demeanour has become one of the most effective speakers to men that I have known in a fairly long and extensive ministry.

I hope this book will have great success."

REV DR TONY SARGENT
PRINCIPAL, INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, GLASGOW

"Hugh Hill tells the story of how as a successful business man but an alcoholic God met with him and his wife in a remarkable way.

Having started the book I found it difficult to put down as he recounts how God had worked in his and his wifes life bringing them to a personal knowledge of Jesus Christ as their Saviour and Lord.

The work of his printing company was revolutionized as he sought to apply Christian principles to the business, refusing to print for the drinks trade but printing rather those things that were wholesome and good.

Later the business went bankrupt through no fault of Hugh's and he worked first for a Christian printer on the South Coast before going into the Christian Ministry where he Pastored three churches before his retirement from the Christian Ministry in 2007.

He and his wife now head up part time a training scheme for Independent churches in the North of England.

The book also gives the testimony's of four people from vastly different backgrounds who Hugh was instrumental in leading to the Lord during his years in Christian service.

The overriding theme for me in the book was that what man could not do God did in the life of Hugh, his wife Joyce and their family.Having been enslaved to alcohol God delivered him and drew him to Himself, to God be all the glory.

A book which is well worth reading, one that will warm the hearts of Gods people and one from which many can learn a great deal."

Arthur Ferdinando

“I have found it uplifting and challenging.  Probably the key point that has struck me has been your comment that either God is who he claims to be or he is not – if he is then we must completely trust him”. 

Graham Gay

"Just finished the book  brill!!  It is the first book I have read for years."

David Thorne

 "We are thoroughly enjoying it and it certainly makes you think of how much of our lives are lived doing it His way and how much is doing it on our own - usually failing miserably and then doing it His way. We are praying each day that we can learn to trust more in the Lord in the same way as you undoubtedly do and less on ourselves

I have to say, probably because we’re family, that I am finding myself becoming very emotional when reading this to Francis in the morning."   

 "We recently had the luxury of a day trip to France, which was an ideal opportunity to read your book on the Ferry.   It really is tremendous.  Did me a power of good.  I'll certainly be recommending it. The Lord bless you big time."

Malcolm.

"I'm still very much enjoying the book.  I've been challenged deeply in my own sense of trust and dependence on the Lord as I read the remarkable stories of his work in your lives."

Richard Wardman

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