God Tells the Man Who Cares
Overview
Tozer beckons us to hear God’s call and pursue a right relationship with Him. From his meditation on Psalm 46:10 to his reflections on Christian service throughout history, Tozer highlights examples of servanthood worthy of emulation. “Christ is every man’s contemporary. His presence and power are offered to us in this time of mad activity and mechanical noises as certainly as to the fisherman on the quiet lake of Galilee … The only condition is that we get still enough to hear his voice and that we believe and heed what we hear,” says Tozer. The chapters in this book are messages of concern, exposing the weaknesses of the church and denouncing compromise. Though they warn and exhort, they are messages of hope as well.
Product Details
- Title: God Tells the Man Who Cares
- Author: A. W. Tozer
- Publisher: WingSpread
- Publication Date: 1992
- Pages: 214
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
“Of course, I mean international communism, the devil’s most cunning and most effective imitation of Christianity to date. It is as if the boiling cauldrons of Gehenna had sprung a leak and the noxious vapors had entered the brains of men and turned them into moral cavemen without any conscience or any sense of common decency. They appear to be possessed and morally demented to a degree known nowhere else on earth. These men, though numerically few, yet constitute a threat to the world so grave, so deadly, that nothing else on earth can be compared to it.” (Page 160)
“Whatever is done without heart is done in the dark no matter how scriptural it may appear to be.” (Page 3)
“Could it be that too many of God’s true children, and especially the preachers, are sinning against God by guilty silence?” (Page 162)
“They’ll pay a price for their boldness, but the results will be worth it.” (Page 162)
“Her gold is being turned to copper and her diamonds to glass. The religion of Cain is now in the ascendancy—and marching under the banner of the cross. Even among those who make a great noise about believing the Bible, that Bible has virtually no practical influence left. Fiction, films, fun, frolic, religious entertainment, Hollywood ideals, big business techniques and cheap, worldly philosophies now overrun the sanctuary.” (Pages 161–162)