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  URGENTLY NEEDED: PROPHETIC LEADERS
  by A.W. Tozer
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Summary: We need prophetic leaders who can see through the distractions
and noise of the world and speak for God.

Topics: "Discernment in Faith", "Prophetic Leadership"
Scripture References: Jeremiah 3:15, Ezekiel 34:23

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A.W. Tozer emphasizes the urgent need for prophetic leaders in a time
when religious news is abundant yet lacks spiritual depth. He critiques
the overwhelming focus on religious activities and publicity, urging
that true leadership should discern God's perspective amidst the noise.
Tozer calls for leaders who can see beyond the surface and understand
the true direction of the church and its mission. He challenges the
audience to seek the heart of God rather than merely following popular
trends in religion.

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There has probably never been another time in the history of the world
when so many people knew so much about religious happenings as they do
today. The newspapers are eager to print religious news; the secular
news magazines devote several pages of each issue to the doings of the
church and the synagogue; a number of press associations gather church
news and make it available to the religious journals at a small cost.
Even the hiring of professional publicity men to plug one or another
preacher or religious movement is no longer uncommon; the mail is
stuffed with circulars and ?releases,? while radio and television join
to tell the listening public what religious people are doing throughout
the world.

Greater publicity for religion may be well and I have no fault to find
with it. Surely religion should be the most newsworthy thing on earth,
and there may be some small encouragement in the thought that vast
numbers of persons want to read about it. What disturbs me is that,
amidst all the religious hubbub, hardly a voice is raised to tell us
what God thinks about the whole thing.

Where is the man who can see through the ticker tape and confetti to
discover which way the parade is headed, why it started in the first
place and, particularly, who is riding up front in the seat of honor?

Not the fact that the churches are unusually active these days, not what
religious people are doing, should engage our attention, but why these
things are so. . . .

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