Modern times have witnessed the rise of the Church Growth Movement and the preaching of the prosperity gospel as a way to drive church growth, with many church leaders and pastors seeming to abandon or never seeking closeness with God. In contrast, A.W. Tozer believed that the focus of a healthy ministry should be on the “depth of the ministry and leave the breadth up to the Holy Spirit” (Dorsett 98). Many view his life as a template to follow for a pastor truly chosen by God. The purpose of this thesis is to present to pastors in America the everyday, workable applications for withstanding the urge to use only man’s reason or business models to build the church. Rather, a great deal can be practically applied by investigating Tozer’s writings,
