The Crucified Life: How to Live out a Deeper Christian Experience

by A. W. Tozer

Publisher:

Regal

, 2011

Overview

What does it mean to be “crucified with Christ”? During his lifetime, renowned teacher A. W. Tozer was often invited to speak at seminaries, churches, and Bible conferences on the topic of the cross and its meaning for the Christian life. Now, in this never-before-published distillation of his best teaching on the subject, you will gain a fresh understanding of the cross’ centrality to your walk of faith in Christ.

The Apostle Paul declared in his letter to the Galatians that he had been “crucified with Christ.” But what does that mean? Is this a claim every believer can and should make? The Crucified Life is a comprehensive examination of these questions, answered with the deep, biblical thinking for which Tozer is revered. “God is ingenious in developing crosses for his followers,” Tozer was fond of saying. At the heart of this book, you will find a call to follow Christ to the cross and be raised to new life—a call to live the crucified life.

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Key Features

• Introduces the concepts of “the crucified life” and “spiritual perfection”
• Expounds on the topic of the cross and its relevance to Christians

Contents

• A Different Way of Living
• Part I: The Foundation of the Crucified Life
  • The Importance of the Crucified Life
  • The Foundation of the Christian Experience
  • The Resurrection Side of the Cross
  • The Loneliness of the Crucified Life
• Part II: The Dynamics of the Crucified Life
  • The Case for Going On into the Promised Land
  • A Discontent with the Status Quo
  • Breaking the Static Condition and Going On
  • The Great Obstacle to Living the Crucified Life
• Part III: The Perils of the Crucified Life
  • The Currency of the Crucified Life
  • The Veils That Obscure God’s Face
  • The Strange Ingenuity of the Christian
  • Allowing God to Be Himself
• Part IV: The Blessings of the Crucified Life
  • The Beauty of Contradictions
  • The Refreshment of a Revival
  • The Everlasting Rewards of Living the Crucified Life
  • Spiritual Guides for the Journey
• The Purpose of the Refiner’s Fire in the Crucified Life

Product Details

• Title: The Crucified Life: How to Live Out a Deeper Christian Experience
• Author: A. W. Tozer
• Editor: James L. Snyder
• Publisher: Regal
• Publication Date: 2011
• Pages: 224

About A. W. Tozer

A. W. Tozer (1897–1963) was born on a small farm in what is now Newburg, Pennsylvania. His family moved to Akron, Ohio, when he was just a young boy. At age 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 1928, he transferred to the Southside Alliance Church in Chicago, 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.

About James L. Snyder

James L. Snyder is the pastor of the Family of God Fellowship in Ocala, Florida, a Christian and Missionary Alliance church (1973–present). He is recognized as an authority on the life and ministry of A. W. Tozer, and has written a number of books as well as numerous essays in Christian periodicals about Tozer. He has a weekly radio ministry, writes a weekly syndicated newspaper column carried by 35 newspapers, as well as over a dozen monthly magazines, both online and print.

Contents

Top Highlights

“Quite simply put, a Christian is one who sustains a right relationship with Jesus Christ. A Christian enjoys a kind of union with Jesus Christ superseding all other relationships.” (Page 24)

“What I mean by ‘the crucified life’ is a life wholly given over to the Lord in absolute humility and obedience: a sacrifice pleasing to the Lord.” (Page 15)

“The crucified life is a life absolutely committed to following after Christ Jesus. To be more like Him. To think like Him. To act like Him. To love like Him. The whole essence of spiritual perfection has everything to do with Jesus Christ. Not with rules and regulations. Not with how we dress or what we do or do not do. We are not to look like each other; rather, we are to look like Christ. We can get all caught up in the nuances of religion and miss the glorious joy of following after Christ. Whatever hinders us in our journey must be dealt a deathblow.” (Page 16)

“First, living the crucified life involves completely forsaking the world. Second, the crucified life means turning fully to the Lord Jesus Christ.” (Page 90)

“The important question to ask, then, is not just ‘what is a Christian?’ but ‘what think ye of Christ?’” (Page 25)

Product Details

• Title: The Crucified Life: How to Live out a Deeper Christian Experience
• Author: A. W. Tozer
• Publisher: Regal
• Print Publication Date: 2011
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Christian life › Christian and Missionary Alliance authors
• ISBNs: 9781441269720, 9780764216152, 144126972X, 0764216155
• Resource ID: LLS:CRUCIFIEDLIFE
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T23:02:06Z

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.