Eldredge believes that typical presentations of the Christian Gospel miss the vital fact that there is a "Larger Story." The reality of a grand love narrative, set in an epic battle for the hearts of mankind — a battle in which we, if we choose to follow Christ, have a role to play — is largely absent from the Gospel as most Christians understand it. According to Eldredge, most people see the offer of salvation as simply forgiveness of sins and a ticket to Heaven. The thought of the Gospel as something that through the "full Work of Christ" (his death, resurrection, and ascension) has real effects now, on this side of Heaven, is largely missing: both forgiveness AND deliverance from sin and the works of the devil through Christ's crucifixion; the offer of life and the potential to a become a new creature that does not desire to sin and has a good heart through the resurrection; and the real authority of the believer through the ascension. Eldredge sees the Gospel, in a phrase, as a Gospel of Restoration. He views the miracles of Christ as primarily advertisements of life in the Kingdom of God, pictures of what it looks like when true restoration happens, available in the partial here and now, ultimately fulfilled at the "Restoration of All Things," as prophesied by Christ in the book of Matthew. Eldredge does not see the miracles of Christ merely as random proofs that He was the Son of God, though he would not deny that they serve that purpose also.