Christians who have not read The Pilgrim’s Progress have not experienced one of God’s best gifts to His church. Heaven may reveal how God used this little book to sustain many a pilgrim to the very end.

It was written in prison. It has never been out of print since its first publication in 1678. Charles Spurgeon said he had read it over 100 times. It has sold over 250 million copies and been translated into 200 languages. It has come out in more than 1300 editions. Those facts alone make it one of the most remarkable books ever written.

The Pilgrim’s Progress takes the Bible’s most used metaphor for the Christian life—a walk, or journey, or way—(the second most used is that of war and battle) and turns it into an extended allegory. The characters are familiar biblical themes without being clichés, the adventures are known scriptural lessons without being tiresome, and the dialogue is theologically instructive without being pedantic.

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