The Pursuit of God: Study Guide
Overview
Jonathan L. Graf’s 110-page study guide to The Pursuit of God has been added to this collection as a separate resource so you can have both books open together side-by-side. Graf wrote it to help the reader apply the truths and reflect upon the major points found in Tozer’s classic book.
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Top Highlights
“It is important that we continually take stock of our relationship with the Lord—not because we are worried about losing our salvation, but because a relationship that isn’t growing is a stagnant relationship and a hindrance to the work of God.” (Page 136)
“‘I want to love God more than anyone in my generation.’” (Page 132)
“At the time, Tozer was struggling with a ‘burden’ God had given him. He was concerned about the apparent shallowness of many believers—people who claimed to be followers of Christ but who had little knowledge of God and little desire to know Him better. Somehow he wanted to motivate these people.” (Page 135)
“‘The only book that should ever be written is one that flows up from the heart, forced out by … inward pressure.… You should never write a book unless you just have to’” (Page 135)
“Too often we approach God hoping for an experience or a sensation instead of simply wanting only God. Try seeking God Himself alone.” (Page 148)
- Title: The Pursuit of God
- Author: A.W. Tozer
- Publisher: WingSpread
- Publication Date: 2006
- Pages: 121
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.” |
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