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Bible Timeline Acts
Bible Timeline Acts
A Biblical History Timeline Offers A Graphical Approach To Aid And Help Biblical Events And Realities
In a Bible study years ago, one person who had been a Christian and laboured in the Church for years, said,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they weren't talking about the pre-mosaic law) I wonder how many Christians would actually notice the error in this statement. Moses existed some 500 years after Abraham and so it is impossible. I have since then put together a Biblical chronological banner and shown more visually the dating of men and women and events.
Unfortunately, a numerous Pastors and teachers in our churches go on and preach flimsy, light weight, shallow, superficial sermons and their members hardly grow in biblical knowledge and understanding. Preachers love to give us'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we love our people this is what we'll do. Unfortunate it seems, if God's men and women are falling through the cracks'for a lack of knowledge' as long as we're nice and loving to all. Truly, the more like the world, the less relevant we're to the world.
Some years ago, I was preaching on the death, burial, resurrection and life of Christ Jesus, and a retired pastor and strong preacher of the Bible, who had been a minister for 40 years, marched up and reproved me vigorously over some fascinating points I made and he remarked 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 teaching anything of a heretical nature in any way, to which he replied"No". I continued on to describe that in the case of that particular verse, it was not referring to examining the Bible but to the false teachings and school of thought of Gnosticism, but he wouldn't have it. Let me ask, how can a 40 year preacher & laborer in the Gospel, not know and understand about a thing that possibly 1/2 the books of the New Testament refer to?
How can he understand and teach the Bible in fullness without being familiar with 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're not told?
Why do we dwell on our pet subjects and feel good discourses?
We instruct on a text from Daniel and a narrative about Nehemiah and a topical from the book of Genesis and then the example of Solomon or the fleece of Gideon - pieces from here and all over, but we do not put it all together in an obvious understandable, easy to remember, perspective with a capable Bible TimeLine and Church History as well. Constantly we're bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a few of them dangerously leaning toward Liberal thinking, when if we could be instructed the fundamental principles of Church history, we then wouldn't be so doomed to do the same again.
Let's us as tutors and preachers sew together the fragments of God's Word and His plan into a seamless tapestry that our people are able to draw on for the remainder of their lives, helping them to understand God, His Eternal Plan, the role of the Church and how to better interpret the Bible to order our lives by.
It's not difficult to do, and it's not boring if we're prepared to put in a bit of study and prayer and fervor, and just maybe you can utilize a Bible Timeline too.
For more info concerning a Bible TimeLine go to our Bible TimeLine Chart website and read up on the biblical study tool.
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