Men Who Met God
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
In the introduction, Robert W. Battles says of Men Who Met God that it is “A. W. Tozer at his best.” With simplicity and genuineness, Tozer looks at seven Old Testament men—Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Elijah, Isaiah and Ezekiel—who had life-changing encounters with God. Although these men lived in the ancient Middle East, Tozer finds application from their lives to ours today. In chapter seven Tozer makes the claim that “Christian believers are called to be burning bushes. They are not necessarily called to be great, or to be promoters and organizers. But they are called to be people in whom the beautifying fire of God dwells, people who have met God in the purifying crisis of encounter!”
Product Details
- Title: Men Who Met God
- Author: A. W. Tozer
- Publisher: WingSpread
- Publication Date: 2007
- Pages: 128
About A. W. Tozer
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.”
Top Highlights
“We do God more honor in believing what He has said about Himself and coming boldly to His throne of grace than by hiding in a self-conscious humility.” (Pages 14–15)
“First, these great souls always have a compelling sense of God Himself, of His person and of His presence.” (Page 16)
“The Christ of the Bible is not rightly known until there is an experience of Him within the believer, for our Savior and Lord offers Himself to human experience.” (Page 9)
“Second, it is plain that the details and the significance of their personal experiences remain sharp and clear with true spiritual meaning.” (Page 17)
“And, finally, I am more than a little concerned about the professing Christian whose experience does not seem to have resulted in a true inner longing to be more like Jesus every day in thought, word and deed.” (Page 18)
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