Epic Live DVD

Have you read John Eldredge's Epic?   If not, you should. Better yet, watch the Epic Live DVD. Perhaps I can best equate reading Epic and watching the DVD like reading Shakespeare and watching the play. It's almost like Epic was meant to be heard, or seen. In the DVD, John essentially narrates the books (really, almost acts it) in front of an small audience. Consider this commentary from ChristianCinema.com:

Discover the story God is telling.

Life, for most of us, feels like a movie we've arrived at forty minutes late.

Sure, good things happen, sometimes beautiful things. But tragic things happen too. What does it mean? We find ourselves in the middle of a story that is sometimes wonderful, sometimes awful, usually a confusing mixture of both, and we haven't a clue how to make sense of it all. No wonder we keep losing heart.

We need to know the rest of the story.

For when we were born, we were born into the midst of a great story begun before the dawn of time. A story of adventure, of risk and loss, of heroism...and betrayal. A story where good is warring against evil, danger lurks around every corner, and glorious deeds wait to be done. Think of all those stories you've ever loved-there's a reason they stirred your heart. They've been trying to tell you about the true Epic ever since you were young.

There is a Larger Story. And you have a crucial role to play.

The Gospel is an Epic, a Drama that has been unfolding now for some time. Journey with John as he explores this Epic in four acts:

• Act One: The beginning of the Trinity and the birth of Eternal Love
• Act Two: The villain enters the story. Evil follows.
• Act Three: The Battle. God fights for the hearts of His people.
• Act Four: Heaven. It is paradise regained, the life we've always dreamed of. The time when God makes "all things new."

In this exciting re-telling of the Gospel, you will discover why you love and connect so deeply with the movies and stories that you do. For God has written a story on the human heart, and every other epic we love is inviting us in and telling us about the true Epic-the Story that God is telling.

I loaned the DVD to my friend Dave and he and his wife Cindy watched it one evening. They were blown away. "Never heard anything like this before", Dave said. "It soooo puts things into perspective." He asked if they could take it to a Sunday evening service they have for boys who are in a group home for sexual abuse. Dave said quite a few of the boys were romanced by the story...to realize that they are a part of a LARGER STORY and they have a part that only THEY can play.

Dave asked today if we could watch the DVD in our small group meeting next week, and then gave it to our friend John to watch this week. Guess I'll have to get another copy.

Comments

[TCS]

hey, found your blog looking for info on Epic Live. Does it contain the movie clips or is it only John telling the "story". Just wondering.

[William Hays]

Thomas, there are no video clips on the DVD. Wish there were, but this is so much more than John just narrating the Epic book. He makes it come alive. As I read Epic the first time I thought it to be like Shakespeare - to be narrated rather than read. The Epic Live DVD is a wonderful soliloquy.