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Bible History Timeline Pdf
Bible History Timeline Pdf
A Bible History Timeline Gives A Graphical Mode To Help Teach Bible Events And Facts
In our weekly Bible study some years ago, one person who had been a Christian and been involved in the Church for years, asserted that,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they weren't talking about the pre-Moses law) I wonder how many Christians would actually pick up the inaccuracy in this statement. Moses came about about five hundred years after Abraham and so it is an impossibility. I have since then made up a Bible chronological chart and explained more visually the time period of individuals and occasions.
Alas, a many Pastors and teachers in our churches go on and preach superficial, shallow, flimsy, light weight sermons and their Church members barely grow in biblical knowledge. Preachers love to preach'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we love our people this is what we'll do. Too bad it seems, if God's people are falling through the cracks'for a lack of knowledge' so long as we're positive and loving to all. In reality, the more relevant we become to this world, the less relevant we're to this world.
Some years ago, I was preaching on the burial, death, resurrection and life of Jesus, and a retired minister and powerful preacher of the Bible, who had been in the ministry for forty years, came up and reproved me vigorously over some interesting points I made and he referred to 1Ti 1:4'Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.' I quietly asked him if I was preaching anything of a heretical nature at all, to which he replied"No". I continued on to explain that in the case of that particular verse, it was not speaking to exploring the Bible but to the false teaching and school of thought of Gnosticism, but he would not accept it. So, how can a forty year preacher & laborer in the Gospel, not understand and know about something that possibly half the books of the New Testament discuss?
How can he understand and teach the Bible in fullness without knowing about something that was so influential in the New Testament church? And then how can the congregation hope to comprehend these things and be able to understand their Bible well, if they're not told?
Why do we get stuck in a rut of our favorite themes and feel good discourses?
We instruct on a text from Ezekiel and a story about Nehemiah and a theme from the book of Mark and then the faith of Moses or the perseverance of Noah - bits from here and everyplace, but we do not put it all at once in a clear understandable, simple to remember, perspective with a capable Bible TimeLine and Church History as well. Constantly we're bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a number of them perilously leaning toward Liberal theology, but if we could be taught the basics of Church history, we then would not be so doomed to do the same again.
Let's us as tutors and preachers sew together the aspects of God's Word and His plan into a logical whole that our people can draw on for the rest of life, helping them to comprehend God, His Eternal Plan, the function of the Church and ways to better interpret the Bible to live by.
It's not difficult to do, and it's not boring if we're ready to put in a bit of study with prayer and fervor, and just perhaps you can utilize a Bible Timeline also.
For more info concerning a Bible TimeLine go to our Bible TimeLine Chart web site and view the Bible study tool.
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