The Story God Is Telling and the Role That Is Yours to Play

Epic, by John Eldredge, has an important message: We long to be part of something epic, which leads us to God. The author explains how every story has the same essential components and those are the same components originally found in the story of God—everything is beautiful, an Adversary interferes, an epic battle ensues, and good prevails. He compares it to a four-act play.

The short book isn’t as epic as I’d hoped. I couldn’t help but feel I’d read it all before—verbatim. I thumbed through a couple of Eldgredge’s other books, but couldn’t easily pick out a single chapter to say, “That’s it.” But the endless movie references, theological quotes, and personal experiences from his life all sounded too familiar.

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Great reinforcement of some basic principles. Short and well written as typical for this author. Eldridge always makes a point, elaborates, explains and summarizes again later in the book for reinforcement. Not as moving as "Beautiful Outlaw" but still worth the time.

I love this DVD! John Eldredge did a fantastic job of conveying the message of God's intent toward his creation and the gospel of Jesus. I have used this DVD in three different groups so far and without exception it was enjoyed immensely.

Many of us go through our lives searching for the truth. Wondering if there is more to life than our daily routine and if so, where do we fit in? This book does a fantastic job at showing us where the world currently stands and where we fit into this "Epic". Highly recommended!

This is such a profound book for me. Epic speaks to me - are you playing your role? Are you afraid to ask Jesus to come into your life? Are you willing to get into the game? God Bless John and Stacy, all of Ransomed Hearts Ministry!

This is such a profound book for me. Epic speaks to me - are you playing your role? Are you afraid to ask Jesus to come into your life? Are you willing to get into the game? God Bless John and Stacy, all of Ransomed Hearts Ministry!

This is an excellent little book that perfectly encapsulates Eldredge's ideas and thoughts on our hearts and what they are made for. If you kind of want a condensed version of "Waking the Dead", this book is a great choice, because it presents most of those same ideas in a much more simplistic format. I love the way that Eldredge relates story to our lives because it makes so much sense.

It was refreshing to read about the story that God is telling in the world and that I have an integral part in it. I think Epic is a taste of the authors other books and if so I look forward to checking them out as well