The Whole Truth (Point of Grace album)

The Whole Truth is the second album by Contemporary Christian group Point of Grace. It was released in 1995 by Word Records with selected market distribution by Epic Records.

The Whole Truth followed the group's debut album, which had produced six #1 singles. As a result, Word Records' promotion department felt intimidated by the prospect of its first single, "The Great Divide."^[2]

The lyrics of "The Great Divide," as recorded, were the result of a happy mistake: the line "There's a bridge to cross the great divide" was meant to be repeated, but a typo rendered the second instance as "There's a cross to bridge the great divide."^[2]

On December 9, 1995, the album charted on Billboard's Top Christian Albums at #8^[3] and on the Billboard 200 at No. 132.^[4] Each of the album's five singles, released between March 1995 and April 1996 reached #1 on the Christian songs chart, continuing what would become the group's historic run of 24 consecutive #1's on the chart.^[2]

Music videos were filmed for "Dying to Reach You" and "Gather at the River."

Point of Grace

• Shelley Breen – vocals
• Denise Jones – vocals
• Terry Jones – vocals
• Heather Payne – vocals

Musicians

• Pat Coil – acoustic piano (1, 4), synthesizer (4, 7, 10), Rhodes electric piano (7)
• David Hamilton – Hammond B3 organ (1, 7, 10), keyboards (3, 5, 8, 11), keyboard programming (3, 5), percussion programming (3, 5, 11), acoustic piano (9, 10)
• Dennis Patton – keyboards, synth bass and percussion programming (2, 6)
• Jerry McPherson – guitars (1)
• Tom Hemby – guitars (1-3, 5, 6, 9)
• Mark Baldwin – guitars (1, 3, 8, 11)
• Dann Huff – guitars (4, 7, 10)
• Jackie Street – bass (1, 3, 5, 8)
• Tommy Sims – bass (4, 7, 10, 11); keyboards, synth bass, drums and percussion programming (9)
• Scott Williamson – drums (1, 2, 5, 6)
• John Hammond – drums (3, 8), percussion programming (8)
• Paul Leim – drums (4, 7, 10)
• Eric Darken – percussion (4, 10, 11)
• Barry Green – trombone (5, 7)
• Chris McDonald – trombone (5, 7)
• Mike Haynes – trumpet (5, 7)
• George Tidwell – trumpet (5, 7)

Arrangements

• Robert Sterling – track arrangements (1, 4, 7, 8, 11), vocal arrangements (11)
• Scott Williamson – vocal arrangement (1, 2, 7-9)
• Dennis Patton – track arrangement (2, 6)
• David Hamilton – arrangements (3, 10), track arrangements (5)
• Cheryl Rogers – vocal arrangements (4-6)
• Geoff Thurman – track arrangements (4, 7), vocal arrangements (4, 7)
• Chris McDonald – horn arrangements (5, 7)
• Tommy Sims – track arrangements (9)
• Point of Grace – vocal arrangements (11)

• John Mays – executive producer
• Robert Sterling – producer
• John Jaszcz – track recording, mixing
• John Mayfield – track recording, vocal recording, overdub recording, digital editing
• Keith Compton – vocal recording, overdub recording
• Doug Sarrett – vocal recording, overdub recording
• Glen Spinner – vocal recording, overdub recording, recording assistant
• Scott Williamson – vocal recording, overdub recording
• Shawn McLean – recording assistant
• Greg Parker – recording assistant
• Aaron Swihart – recording assistant
• John Hurley – mix assistant
• Steve Hall – mastering at Future Disc (Hollywood, California)
• Holly Krig-Smith – production assistant
• Diana Barnes – art direction
• The Kuester Group – design
• Michael Haber – photography
• Mike Atkins – management for Atkins, Muse & Associates