In Perspective

The opinion between election and foreknowledge as well as between prevenient grace and irresistible grace have divided a lot of Christians. Did you choose God or did He choose you? What is God's role in the choosing and where does man's choosing start? A.W. Tozer discusses a bit of this in "Following Hard After God", which is chapter 1 of The Pursuit of God . Here are my reading and reflection notes on the section. Marked: a, Christian theology teaches the doctrine of prevenient grace , which means that before a man can seek God, God must first have sought the man. b. Before a sinful man can think a right thought of God, there must have been a work of enlightenment done within him. c. We pursue God, only because He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit. “No man can come to me,” said our Lord, “ except the Father which hath sent me draw him.”  d.  The impulse to pursue God originate s with God,  but the outworking ...