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Summary: Prepare to have your faith challenged and life shaken!
Review: This book is probably the most spirit filled and guided work I've read in a long time. You can not help but hear the voice of God calling you to a deeper relationship with Him as you read this amazing classic. From begining to end each page is an impassioned plea for the reader to abandon "comfortable Christianity" in order to truly know God as He desires to be known. You can see right away that truly Mr. Tozer wrote this book on his knees. I found myself challenged to look at my own faith in Christ and what I should be doing with that faith in every chapter. Sometimes with weeping and confessing and always compelled to deep times of prayer and renewel in God's presence. The chapter entitled "The Blessedness of Possesing Nothing" should be required reading for anyone confessing Christ as their Lord. I was totally blown away and my life with Christ and my own pursuit of God has been forever enriched. I have read this book over and over and shared much of it with friends and family. If you are "stuck" in you walk with the Lord, let the Spirit of God use this book to shake you loose and move you onward and upward.
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Summary: The Pursuit of God.
Review: Tozer has been described as a twentieth century prophet, and fittingly so. 'The Pursuit of God' is a challenging rebuttal to comfortable, pompously pious evangelicalism, perhaps needed more today than when it was first published. It is a book that deserves the attention of every generation of Christian. Unlike so much of the culturally obsessed pop-religionism packaged and peddled today, Tozer's theology and exegesis are very sound:" . . .the scribe tells us what he has read, and the prophet tells us what he has seen. The distinction is not an imaginary one. Between the scribe who has read and the prophet who has seen there is a distance as wide as the sea. We are overrun today with orthodox scribes, but the prophets, where are they? The hard voice of the scribe sounds over evangelicalism, but the church waits for the tender voice of the saint who has penetrated the veil and has gazed with inward eye upon the wonder that is God. And yet, thus to penetrate, to push in sensitive living experience into the holy Presence, is a privilege open to every child of God." Tozer on the rejection of self-focus: "Self is the opaque veil that hides the face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction. . . Faith is the least self-regarding of the virtues. . . while we are looking at God we do not see ourselves -- blessed riddance."
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