![]() ![]() This the problem which Tozer confronts, this loss of pursuit which hits Christians who settle for a simply intellectual knowledge of God or who believe that the work of Christ ceases to affect their lives after salvation. He is a deduction from evidence which they consider adequate but He remains personally unknown to the individual.” Furthermore “Everything is made to center upon the initial act of ‘accepting’ Christ (a term, incidentally, which is never found in the Bible) and we are not expected thereafter to crave any further revelation of God to our souls.” As Tozer says: “To have found God and still pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love…”Īnd yet the problem for many Christians according to Tozer is that they may have come to a ‘right’ understanding of God and yet aren’t experiencing Him in their lives, “To most people God is an inference, not a reality. The Christian endeavor doesn’t end with salvation, with discovering God (or as it were, with God discovering us) even after God is acknowledged we are still to strive after him, indeed, because of this acknowledgment we strive after him. ![]() ![]() Tozer outlines what it is we mean when we speak of God, in The Pursuit of God he outlines what our response should be once we have found him. In his book The Knowledge of the Holy A.W. ![]()
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