The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer

Week 13: Review & Reflection — The Pursuit Continues

No new reading this week. Return to any chapter that was particularly significant. Reflect on the whole of The Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer.

The book ends, but the pursuit does not. This final week is an invitation to take stock of what God has done in you through these pages — and to look forward.

Discussion Questions

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1.Tozer's central argument is that God is a Person to be known, pursued, and experienced — not merely a doctrine to be affirmed. Having spent twelve weeks with this book, how has your understanding of what it means to know God deepened, shifted, or been challenged?

2.Which chapter or theme hit you hardest? Was it the tyranny of things (Chapter II), the inner veil of self (Chapter III), faith as a gaze (Chapter VII), meekness and rest (Chapter IX), or another? What made it land so powerfully?

3.Tozer writes in the Preface: "if my fire is not large it is yet real, and there may be those who can light their candle at its flame." Has your candle been lit — or made to burn more brightly — by reading this book? Where do you see evidence of that in your life?

4.Tozer's diagnosis of the contemporary church was that it was busy, orthodox, and largely spiritually empty — running programs where there ought to be fire. Has your assessment of the church (or your own congregation) changed at all as a result of reading this book? What would you do differently as a result?

5.The book calls for at least three concrete inner movements: (1) surrendering "things" that have taken God's place at the center; (2) bringing the self-sins to the cross to have the inner veil removed; and (3) making the decision to exalt God above all. Have you made any of these movements? What happened, or what is preventing you?

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Closing Prayer

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O God, Triune God — we have tasted Your goodness through these weeks, and it has both satisfied us and made us more thirsty still. We do not want to leave this study and return to ordinary Christian life as we have known it. We want more — more of You, more of Your Presence, more of the conscious communion that is the beating heart of New Testament religion. Keep the hunger alive in us. And where the fire has been kindled, do not let it go out. Begin in mercy a new work of love within us. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

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