AW and I

AW Tozer and I have been spending a lot of time together lately. He is like a warm Pike Place Roast from Starbucks, tasty, comfortable, and if your not careful, can give you a little burn.

Thanks to the wonders of the Value Village used books section (or the VV Boutique as I so fondly refer to it) I have been finding some old, musty, and fabulous books. As an aspiring writer, I try to support new and upcoming writers, but sometimes I think I get tired of the hype around some books. I like the classics. I miss the classics. I am not sure if I really know all there is to know about the classics, but I am learning.

Tozer may have written these words in the early 60's, but oh he is spot on. Chew on Tozer for awhile today, and if you get a chance, pick up a classic book in the next while.

"A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals. We have been trying to apply machine-age methods to our relations with God. We read our chapter, have our short devotions, and rush away, hoping to make up for our deep inward bankruptcy by attending another gospel meeting or listening to another thrilling story told by a religious adventurer lately returned from afar. The tragic results of this spirit are all about us. Shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies, the preponderance of the element of fun in gospel meetings, the glorification of men, trust in religious externalities, quasi-religious fellowships, salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit; these and such as these are the symptoms of an evil disease, a deep and serious malady of the soul"