tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31647067.post2257256930405720105..comments2024-02-11T10:58:23.271-08:00Comments on Reading to Know: The Pursuit of God, by A.W. Tozer :: RtK Book Club WRAP-UP POSTCarriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08772667430500306088noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31647067.post-81724477149828854612015-04-14T05:56:37.033-07:002015-04-14T05:56:37.033-07:00I've got my post up at last - but will have to...I've got <a href="http://bekahcubed.menterz.com/blog/2015/20150414-15865.htm" rel="nofollow">my post</a> up at last - but will have to wait until after Bible study this morning to read everyone else's thoughts (which I am very much looking forward to doing.) bekahcubedhttp://bekahcubed.menterz.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31647067.post-81063129001096139362015-04-03T05:20:22.143-07:002015-04-03T05:20:22.143-07:00I got a lot out of this one. Thank you, Shonya an...I got a lot out of this one. Thank you, Shonya and Carrie, for the push to read it!<br /><br />http://hopeisthewordblog.com/2015/04/03/the-pursuit-of-god-by-a-w-tozer/Amy @ Hope Is the Wordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07949836482747469686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31647067.post-41602675939139172392015-04-02T09:10:25.231-07:002015-04-02T09:10:25.231-07:00@Stephanie - :D Congratulations!
And well said. ...@Stephanie - :D Congratulations! <br /><br />And well said. Yup, it IS very easy to hear his passion and heart for people to have a deep relationship with God. That's commendable. <br /><br />I'm also sort of glad (relieved?) to know that people found his style of writing somewhat confusing at times.Carriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08772667430500306088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31647067.post-32542652342892193882015-04-02T05:41:26.804-07:002015-04-02T05:41:26.804-07:00I finished it!!! (That there is what I might be mo...I finished it!!! (That there is what I might be most proud of). : )<br /><br />I sometimes struggled through this book and it's writing style. I guess my big takeaways from it were along the lines of the quote Shonya mentioned. You can tell without a doubt that Tozer loved the church and deeply desired for the church to come together and passionately pursue Christ. Whether he expressed himself as clearly as he could here might be up for debate, but you can hear the cry of his heart in this message. <br /><br />I also took away that less focus on self is never a bad thing. It seems like the handful of quotes that I wrote down (before abandoning notetaking for the sheer feat of getting through the book). As the piano tuning quote mentions - focus on the standard to which you are being tuned to and not those around you that you are playing along side of. I think of an orchestra with all eyes on the conductor. If one instrumentalist begins to take his cue from another player that is lagging behind it can set a whole piece of music off course. A needed reminder to focus on the SAVIOR and my personal walk with him and not those around me and live in comparison (which is never profitable).Stephaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04660852009014295034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31647067.post-37860459059499238572015-04-01T06:25:50.443-07:002015-04-01T06:25:50.443-07:00As I've mentioned before I think my review was...As I've mentioned before I think my review was perhaps a little more critical than I should have been. That being said, I reread the "hundred pianos" quote and this time I was like, "Wow that is good." Which sort of proves what I'd already been thinking, that I maybe could have interacted with the book if it hadn't been for his sprinkling every point with how misguided the entire church was.<br />I have no problem with people criticizing/correcting/giving warning about something about the church in their day. It is just that it was so unspecific in this book. He never told us what was exactly the problem. It just sounded like the whole church couldn't get anything right ever.<br />I did like that biographical note about how the book was written. BerlinerinPoethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06853762912371387793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31647067.post-22245088535863364762015-03-31T10:44:12.607-07:002015-03-31T10:44:12.607-07:00My thoughts are here:
http://www.readingtoknow.co...My thoughts are here:<br /><br />http://www.readingtoknow.com/2015/03/the-pursuit-of-god-by-aw-tozer.html<br /><br />I will say that since writing that review I've learned to like this book for the discussion it creates if for no other reason. ;)Carriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08772667430500306088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31647067.post-16940837432234203462015-03-31T06:34:14.634-07:002015-03-31T06:34:14.634-07:00Overall I gleaned much that was beneficial from th...Overall I gleaned much that was beneficial from the book. My thoughts are here:<br />https://barbarah.wordpress.com/2015/03/16/book-review-the-pursuit-of-god/<br /><br />To answer Shonya's last question, the only other book of Tozer's I can recall reading is <em>Knowledge of the Holy</em>, a study of the attributes of God, and I enjoyed it very much.Barbara H.http://barbarah.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com