“There are good decisions, and there are bad decisions. Then, there are good decisions that may not be the wisest ones. How can you tell the difference? How do we know when we are making the wisest decision among many good choices? That will take wisdom, of course. But where do get it? Moses was wise enough to accept the counsel of Jethro, his father-in-law when it came to his ministry. There is a lesson for all of us who like to make decisions without input from anyone else. In this message, Dr. Sproul will teach us the biblical principle of seeking wisdom in counsel.”
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Here’s the link to Ravi Zacharias’ sermons on leadership
http://www.rzim.org/radio/archives.php?p=LMPT
He talks about the essence of biblical leadership…
| Has the present day church lost her true passion for God? Has the emphasis of the church shifted from glorying God through passionate seeking and sanctified living to mere religious externals? | |
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These are but a few of the questions that ought to concern each one of us who call ourselves Christian. If there’s one thing Tozer has striven to do in this precious little book, it is to cause us to examine our spiritual condition and weigh it against the Truth proclaimed in God’s word. In his first chapter, titled “Following hard after thee”, he lays the foundation of what is to come in the rest of the book. In it, Tozer examines the spiritual content or lack thereof of the present day believer. He laments that the “simplicity” of the approach to the throne of God is missing among the majority of the church goers. The contemporary religious man is mired in the rituals of church activity that is borne out of an agenda to build a religious resume more than anything else. |
Tozer voices his concern that the “passionate seeking” that was manifested in the psalmist when he proclaimed that “My soul longs after thee” has been deemed attainable only by a select few. Meditating upon God’s word and spending time in solitude and adoration of our loving creator is considered something reserved only for the elite.Pursuit of God is an attempt to remind us of the simplicity in seeking God as proclaimed in His word. Tozer reiterates the fact that God created man as a relational being, and the only reason for this is He wanted us to be in eternal fellowship with Him. Sin has withered away this genuine ingredient of unquenchable thirst for intimate communion with Him. The insatiable longing for God has been replaced by endless self-focus. The veil of sinful “self-life” has robbed man of his faculty to worship Him as He ought to be worshiped.
The central theme of this book resonates with what Augustine summed up as the story of his life “You have made us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.”
