Before Jesus returns, the scriptures make clear that the church will "fill up in [her] flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ" (Colossians 1:24), embodying the sufferings of Jesus as the highest witness to the world of the longsuffering love of God. Because much of the church in the West is unfamiliar with the normalcy of suffering for the Gospel, Dalton's book Unto Death is a critical message for the church in this hour.