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Bible Timeline Band
Bible Timeline Band
A Bible Timeline Offers A Graphic Representation To Help Teach Bible Characters And Events And Principles
In our Bible study some years ago, somebody, who had been a Christian and laboured in the local Church for many years, said,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they were not referring to the pre-Moses law) I wonder how many Christians would actually pick up the error in this claim. Moses existed some 500 years after Abraham and so it is impossible. I have since made up a Biblical timeline and explained more visually the time period of individuals and occasions.
Alas, a many Pastors and Bible teachers in our churches go on and preach shallow, flimsy, light weight, superficial sermons and their Church members scarcely grow in biblical knowledge and understanding. Preachers love to preach'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we really love people this is what we'll do. Regrettable it seems, if God's people are falling through the cracks'for an absence of knowledge' so long as we're nice and loving to all. In reality, the more like the world, the less relevant we're to the world.
Years ago, I was teaching on the burial, life, resurrection and death of Jesus Christ, and a retired pastor and powerful preacher of the Gospel, who had been in the ministry for 40 years, came to me and reproved me smartly over some fascinating 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 teaching anything of a heretical nature at all, to which he answered"No". I continued on to describe that in the case of that particular Scripture, it wasn't referring to examining Scripture but to the false teachings and school of thought of the Gnostics, but he would not accept it. Let me ask, how can a 40 year preacher & laborer in the Gospel, not understand and know about a thing that probably 1/2 the books of the New Testament relate to?
How can he study and preach the Bible fully 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 are not informed?
Why do we get stuck in a rut of our favorite themes and feel good messages?
We teach on a verse from Corinthians and a story about Hezekiah and a theme from the book of Ezra and then the example of Isaac or the fleece of Gideon - pieces from here and everywhere, but we do not put it all together in an obvious understandable, simple to remember, perspective with a capable Bible TimeLine including Church History as well. Constantly we're bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a number of them hazardously edging toward Progressive doctrine, when if we could be instructed the basics of Church history, we then would not be so doomed to repeat it.
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 remainder of life, helping them to understand God, His Eternal Plan, the role of the Church and how to better translate the Bible to order our lives by.
It's not hard to do, and it's not boring if we're ready to put in a bit of study with prayer and fervor, and just possibly you can use a Bible Timeline too.
For added information concerning a Bible TimeLine check out our Bible TimeLine Chart site and read up on the Bible study resource.
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