2023 Evangel Gathering - Friendship and Flourishing for Missions

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2) Pastor Tozer had a powerful ministry in his generation, and in every generation since he died. Professor Glen Scorgie reports that Tozer’s works have had significant impact among China’s persecuted church, especially Tozer’s books: 13

a) The Pursuit of God (SRSC 10)

b) The Knowledge of the Holy

3) When Tozer was asked where he had nurtured his passion for God and his deep understanding of God’s character, he would point to his thirty-five “teachers.”

His “teachers” were a list of thirty-five spiritual classics that had shaped his spirituality and his theology. 14

4) Tozer’s example provides the tag line for the Sacred Roots project: “Toward 10,000 Tozers!”

3. Remembering God’s work and the people he has used in the past is modeled for us in Scripture.

a. Historical Psalms (Pss 78; 105; 106) 15

b. Spiritual Biographies and Autobiographies in the Bible

1) OT: Job, Jonah, Ruth, Esther, Nehemiah, Ezra, Daniel, etc.

2) NT: Mathew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts

13 Personal conversation with Glen Scorgie. Professor Scorgie is editing SRSC 10, A. W. Tozer’s Pursuit of God. 14 For a list of Tozer’s thirty-five spiritual classics see: Don L. Davis and Hank Voss, “Urban Church Planting: A Topical Bibliography,” in The Evangel Dean Handbook: A Guide to the ABC’s of Equipping Urban Church Planters ( Wichita, KS: TUMI Press, 2015), 237−56. 15 Carmen Joy Imes, ed., Praying the Psalms with Augustine and Friends , Sacred Roots Spiritual Classics 3 (Wichita, KS: TUMI Press, 2021), 290.