10-Appendix 1: Bunyan on Power

The conversation between Faithful and Talkative, spiced
with some remarks from Christian – which John Bunyan
recorded in his The Pilgrim's Progress – must be a leading
candidate for the most challenging, the most searching, part
of the entire allegory. It is for me, at least.1 The truth is,
Bunyan was in reality giving us an exposition of – and,
above all, an application of – Paul's declaration to the
Corinthians:
The kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power
(1 Cor. 4:20).