For two thousand years Christian believers have talked about the Lord and His visible church. The Gospel of the Kingdom has encircled the world. Untold numbers of revivals have followed. Why then hasn’t the Light of Christ expelled more of the remaining darkness? Beginning with the story of the first Christians in Switzerland and how it has gone with their descendants ever since, the author points to what all followers of Christ need to survive—spiritually. And, what happens when that “one thing needed” is lost. This is largely a historical record and includes many excerpts of believers from early Christian times, through the Middle Ages, the Reformation and into modern times, but all on one theme. (368pp. illus. Masthof Press, 2025.)