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Welcome to God's Point of View. On this website you will find materials and resources in support of Historic Christianity and the Bible as the only guide to the faith and practice of the Church. Our goal is to support understanding of and obedience to the Word of God.

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Ephesians, Galatians, Colossians, Philippians and our Harmony of the Gospel series.

From the Director’s Study

In the summer of 1950 when I was a lad of 16, I was sitting in a teaching session of a camp put on by the Navigators at Hume Lake, California. I remember the day because later on in the session someone ran in the door and said that war had broken out in Korea. But that is not my point in the moment. Dawson Trotman, the president of the Navigators at that time, was talking to us. What he had to say has stuck with me for 60 years.

He said that if Billy Graham was in every town in the United States in one year's time, if the same number of people turned out to hear him in each of those sessions as was usually to be found at a Billy Graham rally, if the same number of people went forward and made professions of Christ, and if all of those professions were real, then at the end of one year 2% of the United States would have been evangelize.

On the other hand, if ten man started out on a soul winning mission, if each one of them won one man to the Lord in one month and taught him enough to go out on his own and when another in a month, and if that process continued unbroken (which it would not of course, but if it did) at the end of three years the entire population of the world would have been evangelize.

Without buying into all of the tactics that are used by neo-evangelical, modern, mass evangelism we must say that we are glad for the great public preachers who draw masses of people and encourage many decisions. Even so, star power and events that have been hyped by PR and advertising are not the biblically prescribed method of getting the Mission of the Church completed. Jesus sent His disciples out into the world to take the gospel to every living creature. The one-on-one, travailing-in-birth-and-raising-the-child-to-maturity process is the one that was encouraged by the apostles in their letters to the churches, it is the program that will get the work done, and it is the operation that is the most lacking in our era. I have noticed lately that Christian people are more than happy to open up their purses to support those who will go into difficult areas and carry out the work for them. The inconsistency shows up when the same people are not faithful in attendance to the efforts of local churches to get people motivated and to get out into the world and take the Gospel to those in their part of it.

For Christian people to function well in carrying out the great commission (“Go into all the world and make disciples of all men teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you”) requires commitment, devotion, compassion out of love, and a feeding upon the Scriptures that will bring spiritual strength and health to the individual involved. It is for that purpose, and with that objective in view, that we have opened this website and put the articles, questions and answers, and resources that we have available here on. You will not find anything on this website that is designed to tell you how great we are and how much you need to be a part of our operation. What you will find, by God's grace and with the Holy Spirit's guiding, are things that will assist you in gaining an understanding of God's Word and program, and growing strong in spiritual ways. May God be gracious in helping us the proprietors, and you of visitors, in achieving that end.

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Rev. Cripe's latest books, Grace and Glory, and The Other Side of Jordan, are available. You can purchase them at AuthorHouse.com, Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com, Borders.com, or at your local Bible book store. If you want first-edition signed copies, contact gpview@gmail.com, and give us your payment and mailing information.

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