The Purpose of Man: Designed to Worship
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
A. W. Tozer earned a legendary reputation as a prophetic voice, and he continues to be a bestselling author half a century after his death. A preacher at heart, he found his greatest joy in practicing the presence of God. Worship was his focus and his passion. His sermons were such a strong declaration of what he discovered during private prayer and worship of the triune God, that he had both the ability and the Spirit’s anointing to move his listeners to wrestle with what God was saying to the church. Tozer’s writings carry the same message with the same result to a new generation of worshipers.
The Purpose of Man is the perfect introduction to Tozer. Drawn from messages he called his best teaching, this book will also delight those already familiar with, moved by, and changed by his other classics. What Tozer offers on the subject of worship here in The Purpose of Man will challenge you to reconsider your life’s priorities while at the same time hold out a cup of Living Water for your soul.
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Key Features
- Discusses worship through the unique perspective of A. W. Tozer
- Details Tozer’s lifestyle of worship
- Includes a prayer at the end of each chapter
Contents
- A. W. Tozer: A Heart to Worship
- The Tragedy of Human Depravity
- Searching for Man’s Lost Identity
- Discovering the Heart of Man’s Nature
- The Various Paths to Worship
- Religion Versus Worship
- Seekers After Truth
- What Came First: Workers or Worshipers?
- The Components of True Worship
- The Mystery of True Worship
- The Natural Dwelling Place of God
- The Absolute Worth-ship of Christ
- The Authenticity of Ownership
- The Lord of Our Worship
- Maintaining a Vibrant Worship Lifestyle
Product Details
- Title: The Purpose of Man: Designed to Worship
- Author: A. W. Tozer
- Editor: James L. Snyder
- Publisher: Regal
- Publication Date: 2009
- Pages: 186
About A. W. Tozer
A. W. 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 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 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.
About James L. Snyder
James L. Snyder is the pastor of the Family of God Fellowship in Ocala, Florida, a Christian and Missionary Alliance church (1973–present). He is recognized as an authority on the life and ministry of A. W. Tozer, and has written a number of books as well as numerous essays in Christian periodicals about Tozer. He has a weekly radio ministry, writes a weekly syndicated newspaper column carried by 35 newspapers, as well as over a dozen monthly magazines, both online and print.
Top Highlights
“Worship is man’s full reason for existence. Worship is why we are born and why we are born again. Worship is the reason for our genesis in the first place and our regenesis that we call regeneration. Worship is why there is church, the assembly of the Redeemed, in the first place. Every Christian church in every country across the world in every generation exists to worship God first, not second; not tacking worship at the end of our service as an afterthought, but rather to worship God primarily, with everything else coming in second, at best. Worshiping God is our first call.” (Page 46)
“Idolatry is simply worship directed in any direction but God’s, which is the epitome of blasphemy.” (Page 55)
“ Religion only addresses man’s external condition, not his internal confusion.” (Page 27)
“God made man to be like Him so that man could give more pleasure to God than all the other creatures. Only in man, as created by God, can God admire Himself. Man is the mirror image in which God looks to see Himself. Man is the reflection of the glory of God, which was the purpose and intention of God originally. Man’s supreme function through all eternity is to reflect God’s highest glory, and that God might look into the mirror called man and see His own glory shining there. Through man, God could reflect His glory to all creation.” (Page 43)
“The Scripture teaches us a number of things about the purpose of our life. It teaches us that God created all things out of His own pleasure. ‘Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created’ (Rev. 4:11).” (Page 42)
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