In A.W. Tozer’s book The Pursuit of God, he writes in the very first sentence of the book, “Christian theology teaches the doctrine of prevenient grace, which, briefly stated, means that before a man can seek God, God must first have sought the man.”
A couple sentences further he says,
“We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.”
What I hope to do with this site is journal my pursuit of God. It’s a big challenge for someone so inarticulate as myself. But it’s a pursuit that I know I must make.
In the Preface of The Pursuit of God, Tozer says:
Sound Bible exposition is an imperative must in the Church of the Living God. Without it no church can be a New Testament church in any strict meaning of that term. But exposition may be carried on in such a way as to leave the hearers devoid of any true spiritual nourishment whatever. For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience they are not the better for having heard the truth. The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God, that they may enter into Him, that they may delight in His Presence, may taste and know the inner sweetness of the very God Himself in the core and center of their hearts.
Again …
“For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience they are not the better for having heard the truth.”