The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy

by A. W. Tozer

Publisher:

Regal

, 2012

Overview

Spiritual lethargy is one of the greatest dangers to confront a believer in his or her day-to-day walk with God. A. W. Tozer said, “There are only three directions from which danger comes to the Christian life. They are the world through which we journey, the god of this world, and our own mortified flesh.”

In this never-before-published book, the renowned teacher issues a clarion call for all Christians to awaken to the times in which we live and stand boldly against spiritual and moral slumber. Tozer’s focus is on those few believers who will heed the call to rise up in the face of the great temptation to malaise that is before us, believing that God always begins with one or two who hear and heed his voice, and refuse to become weary in their pursuit of him.

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Key Features

• Warns of the dangers of spiritual lethargy
• Examines challenges Christians face in their walk with God
• Details methods of combating these problems

Contents

• A True Prophet of the Church
• Part I: The Dangers Facing the Evangelical Church
  • At the Brink of Apostasy
  • Seeking a Substitute for God
  • The Platform for False Teaching
  • The Effect of Spiritual Lethargy
  • The Process of Backsliding
  • The Irrepressible Law of Consequence
• Part II: The Challenges Facing the Evangelical Church
  • The Sources of Danger in the Church
  • The Danger of Victory and Defeat
  • The Danger of Bondage and Liberty
  • The Danger of Idleness and Busyness
  • The Danger of Prosperity and Adversity
  • The Danger of Postponed Living
• Part III: The Path to Overcoming These Challenges
  • Resisting the World’s Propaganda
  • Contemplating Our Ways
  • Living the Dynamics of God’s Kingdom
  • Getting Ready to Fight the Good Fight
  • Living as an Intentional Christian
• A Short Biography of A.W. Tozer

Product Details

• Title: The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy
• Author: A. W. Tozer
• Editor: James L. Snyder
• Publisher: Regal
• Publication Date: 2012
• 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

“Let me go out on a limb a little bit and prophesy. I see the time coming when all the holy men whose eyes have been opened by the Holy Spirit will desert worldly evangelicalism, one by one. The house will be left desolate and there will not be a man of God, a man in whom the Holy Spirit dwells, left among them.” (Page 14)

“A discouraged heart always exaggerates everything. Do not trust a discouraged spirit, for it will never give you the true picture of you or your situation.” (Page 99)

“ To have a cold heart with little pity, little fire, little love and little worship is spiritual lethargy.” (Page 55)

“Men are trying to use God in place of offering themselves to God to be used by Him.” (Page 58)

“If I have a low concept of God, I will have a low concept of myself; and if I have a low conception of myself, I have a dangerous concept of sin. If I have a dangerous concept of sin, I have a degraded concept of Christ. Here is the way it works: God is reduced; man is degraded; sin is underestimated; and Christ is disparaged.” (Pages 44–45)

Product Details

• Title: The Dangers of a Shallow Faith: Awakening from Spiritual Lethargy
• Author: A. W. Tozer
• Publisher: Regal
• Print Publication Date: 2012
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: United States › Church history--20th century; Church renewal › United States; Revivals › United States; Religious awakening › Christianity
• ISBNs: 9781441269737, 9780764216169, 1441269738, 0764216163
• Resource ID: LLS:DANGERSHLLWFTH
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T23:11:16Z

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.