Epilogue Summary and Analysis

The epilogue summarizes Jim Elliot's life and includes quotes that are used throughout the book and could serve as a eulogy for his life. It highlights various Scripture passages and points out that Jim Elliot lived and died for his Lord Jesus Christ. He didn't leave much behind as far as earthly possessions, and didn't even have a funeral. Yet the legacy he leaves behind includes his diaries, letters and relationships with people all over the world. His death was a result of his obedience to the Lord's leading. This epilogue is loaded with quotes from his diary, but this one sums it up: "Granted, fate and tragedy, aimlessness and just-missing-by-a-hair are part of human experience, but they are not all, and I'm not sure they are a major part, even in the lives of men who know no Designer or...