Pursuit of God

The problem with modern Christianity, A.W. Tozer argued, is that it has traded the living God for a comfortable religion of habits and traditions. Written in 1948 by a self-educated pastor who never attended seminary, this prophetic volume calls believers to wake from spiritual slumber and pursue God with the desperate longing of a deer panting for water. Tozer insists that the cry of Psalm 42 should define every Christian's life: not a casual knowledge ABOUT God, but an urgent, intimate KNOWING of God himself. The book confronts the mediocrity that creeps into faith when we settle for doctrine without experience, for church attendance without transformed hearts. Tozer's writing does not coddle. He challenges readers to examine whether their faith has become routine, whether they have mistaken religious activity for genuine pursuit. This is not a book for the comfortable. It is for the restless, the dissatisfied, the ones who sense something essential is missing but cannot name it. Across seven decades, "The Pursuit of God" continues to awaken Christians who are tired of a faith that feels stale.