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Bible Timeline Bible Study
Bible Timeline Bible Study
A Bible Timeline Gives A Creative Approach To Aid And Help Bible Characters And Events And Principles
In a Bible class some years ago, a friend who had been a Christian and laboured in the local Church for years, said,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they weren't referring to the pre-mosaic law) I wonder how many Christians will actually pick up the error in this statement. Moses lived some 500 years after Abraham and so it is an impossibility. I have since compiled a Biblical chronological banner and explained more visually the dating of men and women and events.
Unfortunately, a large number of preachers and teachers in our churches go on and preach flimsy, superficial, light weight, shallow sermons and their members barely grow in Bible knowledge. Preachers love to preach'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we really love people this is what we will do. Unfortunate it seems, if God's men and women are falling through the cracks'for an absence of knowledge' as long as we are positive and loving to all. In reality, the more like the world, the less relevant we are to the world.
Some time ago, I was preaching on the death, life, resurrection and burial of Christ Jesus, and a retired minister and powerful preacher of the Gospel, who had been a minister for forty years, came up and reproved me smartly 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 had been saying anything of a heretical nature at all, to which he replied"No". I continued on to spell out that in the case of that particular verse, it was not referring to exploring Scripture but to the false teachings and philosophy of the Gnostics, but he would not accept it. So, how can a forty year minister & laborer in the Gospel, not know and understand about something that probably 1/2 the books of the New Testament refer to?
How could he study and preach the Bible fully 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 properly, if they're not told?
Why is it that we get stuck in a rut of our favorite themes and sugar coated discourses?
We teach on a verse from Hosea and a story about Isaac and a topic from the book of Nehemiah and then the faith of Adam or the perseverance of Noah - bits from here and there, but we do not put it all at once in an evident understandable, easy to remember, perspective with a decent Bible TimeLine including Church History as well. Constantly we are bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, some of them hazardously edging toward Liberal theology, but if we could be taught the basic principles of Church history, we then would not be so doomed to do the same again.
Let's us as teachers and preachers sew together the fragments of the Bible and His plan into a seamless tapestry that our people are able to draw on for the remainder of their lives, helping them to comprehend God, His Eternal Plan, the function of the Church and ways to better interpret the Bible to model our lives by.
It is not hard to do, and it's not boring if we are ready to put in a bit of effort prayer and fervor, and just maybe you can make use of a Bible Timeline too.
For more information about a Bible TimeLine check out our Bible TimeLine Chart website and check out the biblical study tool.
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