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    God Still Speaks: Are We Listening?
    God Still Speaks: Are We Listening?
    God Still Speaks: Are We Listening?
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    God Still Speaks: Are We Listening?

    By A. W. Tozer

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    Tozer is as popular today as when he was living on the earth. He is respected right across the spectrum of Christianity, in circles that would disagree sharply with him doctrinally. Why is this? A. W. Tozer was a man who knew the voice of God. He shared this experience with every true child of God. With all those who are called by the grace of God to share in the mystical union that is possible with Him through His Son Jesus.

    Tozer fought against much dryness and formality in his day. Considered a mighty man of God by most Evangelicals today, he was unconventional in his approach to spirituality and had no qualms about consulting everyone from Catholic Saints to German Protestant mystics for inspiration on how to experience God more fully.

    Tozer, just like his Master, doesn’t fit neatly into our theological boxes. He was a man after God’s own heart and was willing to break the rules (man-made ones that is) to get there.

    Here are two writings by Tozer that touch on the heart of this goal. Revelation is Not Enough and The Speaking Voice. A bonus chapter The Menace of the Religious Movie  is included.

    This is meat to sink your spiritual teeth into. Tozer’s writings will show you the way to satisfy your spiritual hunger.

    CrossReach Publictions
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrossReach Publications
    Release dateDec 8, 2018
    ISBN9788829570355
    God Still Speaks: Are We Listening?
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    A. W. Tozer

    The late Dr. A. W. Tozer was well known in evangelical circles both for his long and fruitful editorship of the Alliance Witness as well as his pastorate of one of the largest Alliance churches in the Chicago area. He came to be known as the Prophet of Today because of his penetrating books on the deeper spiritual life.

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      God Still Speaks - A. W. Tozer

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      Introduction

      Tozer is as popular today as when he was living on the earth. He is respected right across the spectrum of Christianity, in circles that would disagree sharply with him doctrinally. Why is this? A. W. Tozer was a man who knew the voice of God. He shared this experience with every true child of God. With all those who are called by the grace of God to share in the mystical union that is possible with Him through His Son Jesus.

      Tozer fought against much dryness and formality in his day. Considered a mighty man of God by most Evangelicals today, he was unconventional in his approach to spirituality and had no qualms about consulting everyone from Catholic Saints to German Protestant mystics for inspiration on how to experience God more fully.

      Tozer, just like his Master, doesn’t fit neatly into our theological boxes. He was a man after God’s own heart and was willing to break the rules (man-made ones that is) to get there.

      Here are two writings by Tozer that touch on the heart of this goal. Revelation is Not Enough and The Speaking Voice. A bonus chapter The Menace of the Religious Movie is included.

      This is meat to sink your spiritual teeth into. Tozer’s writings will show you the way to satisfy your spiritual hunger.—Dave Kinsella

      Revelation Is Not Enough

      1

      The key, the crux of this whole issue, is in verse 17. If any man is willing to do God’s will, he shall know.

      About the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught. And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned? Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself (John 7:14-17).

      People marvelled at our Lord as He taught. They asked: How knoweth this man letters having never learned? ‘How does He know learning’, in other words, ‘never having studied in the regular schools?’ In those days they had no schools as we know them; a rabbi taught little groups of students. Our Lord evidently never attended a rabbinical school so they asked: ‘How does He get His wonderful doctrine, since He has never been to the schools of the rabbis?’

      Now, this question tells us a good deal about these people. It tells us that they held truth to be intellectual merely, capable of being reduced to a code. To know truth it was necessary only to learn the code.

      Most of them had no books of their own—they learned by memorizing. That was their conception of truth. I gather this not only from verse 17 but from the whole Gospel of John. To these people truth was an intellectual thing—just as we know that two times two is four.

      That is truth, but it is an intellectual truth only. They reduced divine truth to that status. They knew the laws: Thou shalt have no other gods before me.... Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.... Thou shalt not .... But to them there was no mysterious depth in truth, nothing beneath and nothing beyond the obvious fact. It was exactly here that they parted company with our Saviour, for our Lord Jesus constantly taught the beyond and the beneath.

      These people believed that the words of truth were the truth. And here is a basic misunderstanding of Christian theology with a moral and spiritual consequence that is vastly important. They believed that if you had the words of truth, if you could repeat the code of truth, you had the truth. That if you lived by the word of truth you lived in the truth.

      The Saviour tried to correct this inadequate view. He showed them the heavenly quality of His message. He said: ‘My doctrine is not Mine—I am not a rabbi teaching doctrine that you can memorize and repeat. What I am giving you is not that kind of doctrine at all.’

      He had said previously: ‘I say nothing for Myself—what I see the Father do, that I do, and what the Father speaks, that I speak. What I have seen yonder I tell you about. I am a transparent medium through which the truth is being spoken. You believe that the way to truth is to go to a rabbi and learn it. That’s not the truth, that approach to truth is inadequate.’

      Here, it seems to me, is the weakness in modern Christianity. The battle line, the warfare today, is not necessarily between the fundamentalist and the liberal. There is a difference between them,

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