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Who or what was Israel's greatest enemy in the wilderness?

Who or what is the worst enemy of today's church (both individually and corporately)?

To what does Tozer compare the church's conformity of routine?

What alters the inability to predict?

What is Tozer's definition of the word "rote"?

What is Tozer's definition of "rut"?

What is Tozer's definition of the word "rot"?

A "church" is

The church can only improve by improving

When told they are in a "rut", most Christians respond with

The church today is in a religious rut firstly because it has misunderstood the nature of the Christian _____________, that Christianity is inward not outward and that the internal cannot be changed by external means.

Secondly, we have misunderstood the nature of the ________________, a body of individuals united in Christ but having seperate individual responsibilities, and that this body can only grow/improve as individuals grow/improve.

Thirdly, we do not know or realize what is ______________ with us and we are treating the wrong things.

Anything you ought and could be . . .

After examining ourselves, if we have no desire to change individually (thus making a change within the church), the first reason could be:

The second reason for this lack of conviction to change may be:

The third possible reason for the lack of conviction to change is that we are impervious to the arrows of the Holy Spirit because of our

Tozer reminds us that the ___________________ never got under conviction.

The "sleeping" man isn't ___________.

In Ephesians 5:14 where it reads, "Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light . . .", Paul was speaking to:

Sleeping Christians do two things that Tozer believes grieve God.  List those two things.

Christianity is about the _______________ soul.

The individual in a rut, a circular grave as Tozer calls it, will find himself:

The individual in a rut also finds that time increases his spiritual indifference, dulling his religious _________________.

________________ is one of the ingredients of Christianity.  If a man couldn't ________________, then the Gospel would be absolutely meaningless.  The fact that a man can ________________ is the only hope that he has.  (The same word fits all three blanks.)

When Tozer refers to "society" he is referring to the fallen race of [who] ___________?

According to Tozer, we are responsible for our ________________ thoughts.

God is always the aggressor.  He works in our lives

At times, a person can know that God is convicting them to change, to get out of a rut, but believe that God will no longer help them to change because of their past.  This wrong feeling causes them to be immobile to God's conviction.  Tozer refers to this as:

Someone who seeks a desirable end but ignores "constituted means" is a

God has two "constituted means" for getting out of a spiritual rut.  The first is _________________ . . .

. . . and the second is ____________________.

Tozer described "faith" as irrevocable, total commitment to:

The moment God speaks to you about an issue, __________ His command because you are irrevocably and totally committed to Him.

Romans 12:1-2 reads, "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service.  And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable and perfect will of God."

This means we are to:

In doing so, Tozer says there are three spiritual laws we must honor.  The first such law is the Law of ________________.

God requires us to be both

In giving ourselves wholly to God, the second spiritual law we must honor is the Law of ______________________.

The third such spiritual law is the Law of __________________.

Tozer reminds us that man is dust and dust tends to ____________.

Not only is it imperative that we get out of a spiritual rut, but that we get out _______.

Tozer lists four reasons iti s imperative to immediately get out of a spiritual rut.  In your own words, list those four reasons.