Worship: The Reason We Were Created
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
Few subjects invigorated A. W. Tozer like the topic of worship. He saw it—like the church has traditionally—as the sole reason for which creation exists.
Worship: The Reason We Were Created features collections from the beloved spiritual writer on this important topic. The church’s current worship is emaciated; its thoughts of God are too low. Here is a compilation to raise those thoughts high once more and provoke the church to true, spiritual worship.
Topics include:
- The act and object of worship
- The presence of God
- Worship throughout the week
- Feelings and emotion in worship
- Man as a worshipping creature
If it’s true that we are made to worship God, that it is the sole reason that we exist, that we are most alive when we live for His glory, then reading Worship is more than time well spent. It is time invested in the very foundation of your life.
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Key Features
- Features a compilation of Tozer’s best writings on worship
- Provides encouragement and conviction
Contents
- Publisher’s Note
- What Happened to Our Worship?
- Failing God
- The Reason We Exist
- True Worship Requires the New Birth
- Worship as He Wills
- Worship He Who Is Majestic and Meek
- Awed by God’s Presence
- Genuine Worship Involves Feeling
- Worship Every Day of the Week
- Worship Our Beloved
- References
- More from A.W. Tozer
Top Highlights
“The philosophers called the ancient mystery of the personhood of God the ‘mysterium conundrum.’ We who are God’s children by faith call Him ‘our Father which art in heaven.’ In sections of the church where there is life and blessing and wonder in worship, there is also the sense of divine mystery. Paul epitomized it for us as ‘Christ in you, the hope of glory’ (Col. 1:27).” (Page 91)
“I tell you, outside of politics there is not another field of activity that has more words and fewer deeds, more wind and less rain.” (Page 17)
“What is the real definition of the Christian church? What are the basic purposes for its existence?” (Pages 21–22)
“I believe a local church exists to do corporately what each Christian believer should be doing individually—and that is to worship God. It is to show forth the excellencies of Him who has called us out of darkness into His marvelous light. It is to reflect the glories of Christ ever shining upon us through the ministries of the Holy Spirit.” (Page 22)
“Real worship is, among other things, a feeling about the Lord our God. It is in our hearts. And we must be willing to express it in an appropriate manner. We can express our worship to God in many ways. But if we love the Lord and are led by His Holy Spirit, our worship will always bring a delighted sense of admiring awe and a sincere humility on our part.” (Page 90)
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. 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 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, which can all be found in the A. W. Tozer Collection (57 vols.) along with several other sermons, books, and essays by him. Also available from Logos is the A. W. Tozer Upgrade Collection (11 vols.).