The Pursuit of God

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The Pursuit of God

Discussion Questions

Secularization, the process whereby God is progressively ignored and pushed away to the distant margins of human life, has been trending

in many societies worldwide. Discuss the varied effects of such a widening relational divide between God and God’s human creatures in our world today?

The Scriptures teach us to regard God as our father and our friend, and they raise the possibility of lovingly intimate relationship

with him. Tozer reminds us that such relationships must be properly ordered ones in which the Creator’s rightful preeminence is acknowledged and honored. Describe the unique dynamics of such a relationship, given the extreme difference between an all-powerful, eternal Creator and his very tiny, mortal human creatures.

What negative perceptions of God’s nature and character make some people cool toward God and reluctant to pursue him or get too close

to him? What corrective wisdom about God can help overcome such mental and emotional obstacles to loving intimacy with him? Are there any misperceptions of God that you are still working personally to overcome?