![]() ![]() Tozer pastored and preached in congregations in a number of places including Nutter Fort (WV), Chicago (IL), and Toronto (Canada). Just a few years later, without even a high school education (what a contrast to Kelly and Merton!), Tozer began forty-four years of ministry in the Christian & Missionary Alliance (C&MA) - if you are unfamiliar with this Protestant denomination click here. While on his way home from the Akron, Ohio tire company where he worked as a teen, young Aiden Wilson Tozer overheard a street preacher say,“If you don’t know how to be saved…just call on God.” Upon returning home, Tozer climbed into the attic and heeded the preacher’s advice. ![]() ![]() Furthermore, Tozer’s testimony is simple and focused, one which carried him in ministry throughout his life. Tozer‘s (1897 – 1963) life-time has significant overlap with Thomas Raymond Kelly (1893 – 1941) and Thomas Merton’s (1915 – 1968), in some ways they couldn’t be more separate by tradition in 20th Century Christianity - to compare visit Receiving from the Christian Devotional Classics: Thomas Merton & the Desert Fathers and A Testament of Devotion. ![]()
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