Rut, Rot or Revival: The Problem of Change and Breaking out of the Status Quo

by A. W. Tozer

Publisher:

WingSpread

, 2006

Overview

In this powerful collection of verbatim sermons, A. W. Tozer deals with revival issues: the problem of ‘sleeping’ Christians controlling church affairs, the problem of getting out of the ecclesiastical rut, and the difficulty of breaking the status quo. This is Tozer, pulpit-style—humor included. Warren Wiersbe says in the Foreword: “If the messages in this book were read and acted upon by every pastor and church member, we would have the revival for which Dr. Tozer fervently prayed and for which many of us are praying today.”

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Product Details

• Title: Rut, Rot or Revival
• Author: A. W. Tozer
• Publisher: WingSpread
• Publication Date: 2006
• Pages: 163

About A. W. Tozer

Aiden Wilson Tozer (1897-1963) was born on a small farm in what is now Newburg, PA. His family moved to Akron, Ohio, when he was just a young boy. At the age of 17, Tozer heard a street preacher, responded to the calling of Christ, and began his lifelong pursuit of God. After becoming an active witness of Jesus as a lay preacher, he joined The Christian and Missionary Alliance and was soon serving as the pastor of West Virginia’s Alliance Church, in 1919. He transferred to the Southside Alliance Church in Chicago in 1928, and his ministry continued there for 31 years. During that time he preached on the Moody Bible Institute’s radio station. In the 1940s Tozer was invited to speak at Wheaton College, and seldom a year passed after World War II that he didn’t preach in the college’s Pierce Chapel. In 1950 he became the editor of The Alliance Life magazine and served in that capacity until his death.

Self-taught, with no formal Bible training, Tozer has been called a twentieth-century prophet within his own lifetime. Through years of diligent study and constant prayer, he sought the mind of God. A master craftsman in the use of the English language, he was able to write in a simple, cogent style the principles of truth he had learned. For Tozer, “there was no substitute for knowing God firsthand.” He wrote many of his books with one idea in mind—that his reader would achieve the heart’s true goal in God and maintain that relationship with Him.

Tozer moved to Toronto in 1959 and spent the final years of his life as the pastor of Avenue Road Church. He and his wife, Ada, lived a simple, non-materialistic lifestyle and let much of the royalties from his books go to those in need. The Tozers had seven children, six boys and one girl. James L. Snyder, said of Tozer that his “preaching as well as his writings were but extensions of his prayer life. He had the ability to make his listeners face themselves in the light of what God was saying to them.”

Contents

Top Highlights

“The Baptist preacher Dr. Vance Havner says, ‘A committee is a company of the incompetent chosen by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.’” (Page 12)

“The treacherous enemy facing the church of Jesus Christ today is the dictatorship of the routine, when the routine becomes ‘lord’ in the life of the church. Programs are organized and the prevailing conditions are accepted as normal. Anyone can predict next Sunday’s service and what will happen. This seems to be the most deadly threat in the church today. When we come to the place where everything can be predicted and nobody expects anything unusual from God, we are in a rut.” (Page 3)

“The second thing sleeping Christians do is set the standards for new Christians.” (Page 28)

“I begin with what I will call the rote. This is repetition without feeling.” (Page 5)

“Second, people may not be concerned about the rut because of sin they have committed.” (Page 19)

Product Details

• Title: Rut, Rot or Revival: The Problem of Change and Breaking Out of the Status Quo
• Author: A. W. Tozer
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Publisher: WingSpread
• Print Publication Date: 2006
• Logos Release Date: 2008
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Christian living › Spiritual growth
• ISBNs: 9781600660481, 1600660487
• Resource ID: LLS:RUTROTREV
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:50:12Z

About A. W. Tozer

A. W. Tozer (1897–1963) was a dynamic preacher, prolific writer, and a no-nonsense man of God. Aiden Wilson Tozer responded to the call of Christ at the age of 17. After becoming an active witness of Jesus as a lay preacher, he joined The Christian and Missionary Alliance and was soon serving as the pastor of West Virginia’s Alliance Church.

In 1928, he transferred to the Southside Alliance Church in Chicago where he served for 31 years. During that time he preached on the Moody Bible Institute’s radio station and was often invited to speak at Wheaton College in Pierce Chapel. Tozer spent the final years of his life as the pastor of Avenue Road Church in Toronto and the editor of The Alliance Life magazine.

Tozer authored over 40 books, including The Attributes of God, Volume One, Tozer on Christian Leadership, We Travel an Appointed Way, The Pursuit of God, and God’s Pursuit of Man.