Success and the Christian: The Cost of Spiritual Maturity

by A. W. Tozer

Publisher:

WingSpread

, 2007

Overview

Tozer reminds us that authentic spiritual success cuts across much of contemporary thought. It is foremost to magnify God, then to mortify or crucify the flesh, and lastly to simplify your life. These, for Tozer, are the paths to a dynamic spiritual life. The chapters of this book were originally preached as sermons at Southside Alliance Church in Chicago. In Chapter 3 Tozer laments that “this is the day of the magnification of slick personalities, and as we magnify men, we minimize God.” Tozer proclaims in the chapter entitled The Secret of Victory that “We are to exalt God above all things and to live so that His glory is exalted above the heavens. This is the ladder by which you climb to the kingdom of power and the lever by which you move mountains.”

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Product Details

• Title: Success and the Christian: The Cost of Spiritual Maturity
• Author: A.W. Tozer
• Publisher: WingSpread
• Publication Date: 2007
• Pages: 152

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.”

 

Contents

Top Highlights

“There are two times to pray: when you feel like it and when you don’t.” (Page 33)

“If you’re going to save yourself from this untoward generation and salvage something out of the world wreck and the crash and fall of the world, you are going to have to do three things: the first is magnify God; the second, mortify the flesh; and the third, simplify your life. That is what the three Scripture passages above say.” (Page 36)

“The fourth thing is take up your cross. Learn how to suffer for the Lord’s sake a little bit” (Page 11)

“Just as babies love to be amused, so the cry for amusement in religion is evidence that we are frozen in the first grade.” (Page 6)

“Another thing about a baby is its cry for amusement.” (Page 5)

Product Details

• Title: Success and the Christian: The Cost and Criteria of Spiritual Maturity
• Author: A. W. Tozer
• Publisher: WingSpread
• Print Publication Date: 2007
• Logos Release Date: 2008
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Christian living
• ISBNs: 9781600660580, 1600660584
• Resource ID: LLS:SUCCSSCHR
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:14:27Z

About A. W. Tozer

A. W. Tozer (1897–1963) was a dynamic preacher, prolific writer, and a no-nonsense man of God. Aiden Wilson Tozer responded to the call of Christ at the age of 17. 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 where he served for 31 years. During that time he preached on the Moody Bible Institute’s radio station and was often invited to speak at Wheaton College in Pierce Chapel. Tozer spent the final years of his life as the pastor of Avenue Road Church in Toronto and the editor of The Alliance Life magazine.

Tozer authored over 40 books, including The Attributes of God, Volume One, Tozer on Christian Leadership, We Travel an Appointed Way, The Pursuit of God, and God’s Pursuit of Man.