Quote by A. W. Tozer

I believe that as a people living in a time of social media and the easy access to knowledge, that we should therefore use it to get educated on church history. It would be interesting to learn from and about our forefathers. 

So with that being said, coming throughout the year I would like to share quotations from great pastors and some church history along with stories of martyrs who died believing in their faith.

As Christians we should know some church history and heritage so that we will be ready to give an account of our faith. 

2 Timothy 2:15 New Living Translation 

Work hard so you can present yourself to God and receive his approval. Be a good worker, one who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly explains the word of truth.

New King James Version

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

I pray that you enjoy this quote of the week by A. W. Tozer

“This generation has forgotten that the message does not clean up 

and shine the outside of a person; rather, it enters into the very 

heart and core of a person and radically changes that person from the inside.”      by A. W. Tozer

A.   W. Tozer

                     Born 1897 - 1963

Tozer hailed from a tiny farming community in western La Jose, Pennsylvania. He converted to Christianity as a teenager, in Akron, Ohio; while on his way home from work at a tire company, he overheard a street preacher say, "If you don't know how to be saved ... just call on God, saying, 'Lord, be merciful to me a sinner.'" Upon returning home, he climbed into the attic and heeded the preacher's advice.

In 1919, five years after his conversion and without formal theological training, Tozer accepted an offer to pastor his first church. That began 44 years of ministry, associated with the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA), a Protestant Evangelical denomination, 33 served as a pastor in a number of churches. His first pastorate was in a small storefront church in Nutter Fort, West Virginia.

Tozer also served as pastor for 30 years at Southside Alliance Church, in Chicago (1928 to 1959), and the final years of his life were spent as pastor of Avenue Road Church, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In observing contemporary Christian living, he felt the church was on a dangerous course toward compromising with "worldly" concerns.

Born into poverty, Tozer was self-educated, due to his home situation, and he taught himself what he missed in high school and college. In 1950, Tozer received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Wheaton College.