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Bible Timeline Activity
Bible Timeline Activity
A Bible History Timeline Gives A Graphical Representation To Aid And Help Bible Characters And Events And Principles
In a Bible study some years ago, a lady who had been a Christian and worked in the local Church for over 15 years, said,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they were not talking about the pre-Moses law) I wonder just how many Christians will actually notice the inaccuracy in this assertion. Moses lived about five hundred years after Abraham and so it is not possible. I have since compiled a Biblical chronological banner and shown graphically the time period of individuals and events.
Unfortunately, a numerous Pastors and Bible teachers in our churches go on and preach flimsy, shallow, light weight, superficial messages and their Church members barely grow in biblical knowledge and understanding. Preachers love to preach'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we really love our people this is what we will do. Regrettable it seems, if God's people are falling through the cracks'for an absence of knowledge' so long as we're positive and loving to all. In reality, the more relevant we become to the world, the less relevant we're to the world.
Years ago, I was teaching on the burial, resurrection, life and death of Christ Jesus, and a retired minister and strong preacher of the Gospel, who had been a pastor for 40 years, marched 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 had been 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 Scripture, it was not speaking to exploring Scripture but to the false teachings and school of thought of Gnosticism, but he would not accept it. So, how can a 40 year minister & worker in the Gospel, not know and understand about a thing that probably half the books of the New Testament relate to?
How can he understand and preach the Bible in fullness without being aware of a thing that was so influential in the New Testament church? And then how can the congregation hope to understand these things and be able to understand their Bible properly, if they are not informed?
Why do we dwell on our favorite topics and sugar coated preaching?
We teach on a text from Obadiah and a story about Jacob and a topic from the book of Song of So lomon and then the obedience of John or the 'water into wine' - parts from here and all over, but we do not put it all at once in a clear understandable, simple to remember, perspective with a good Bible TimeLine with Church History as well. Constantly we're bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a number of them perilously leaning toward Liberal doctrine, but if we were to be coached the basic principles of Church history, we then would not be so bound to repeat it.
Let's us as teachers and preachers stitch together the fragments of God's Word and His plan into a logical whole that our people can draw on for the rest of their lives, to help them to understand God, His Eternal Plan, the role of the Church and how to better translate the Bible to model our lives by.
It's not hard to do, and it's not boring if we're prepared to put in a bit of study with prayer and fervor, and just possibly you can make use of a Bible Timeline also.
For added information concerning a Bible TimeLine go over to our Bible TimeLine Chart web site and see the Bible study resource.
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