"A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals. We have been trying to apply machine-age methods to our relations with God. We read our chapter, have our short devotions, and rush away, hoping to make up for our deep inward bankruptcy by attending another gospel meeting or listening to another thrilling story told by a religious adventurer lately returned from afar. The tragic results of this spirit are all about us. Shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies, the preponderance of the element of fun in gospel meetings, the glorification of men, trust in religious externalities, quasi-religious fellowships, salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit; these and such as these are the symptoms of an evil disease, a deep and serious malady of the soul." 

– A. W. Tozer

Tozer is drives a hard bargain most of the time.

I never read even a paragraph of this man's reflections without feeling challenged in the deep places of my life. He is like a chemical which, when poured over our lives, removes all the veneer of religious pretense.

To say that Tozer calls us to a God-centered approach to thinking and living out our faith would be overstating the obvious.

He is not a grumpy as he may seem, but he gets in our faces about our reliance of fluff, frills, and our insatiable "need" to be entertained by the external elements of Christianity.

I don't know where he would go to church if he were alive today, but I suspect that he would be looking for something that many of us are seeking – authenticity.