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Bible Timeline Book
Bible Timeline Book
A Biblical Timeline Banner Presents A Creative Mode To Aid And Help Biblical Events And Realities
In our Bible group years ago, somebody, who had been a Christian and been involved in the local 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 just how many Christians will actually pick up the error in this assertion. Moses came about 500 years after Abraham and so it is impossible. I have since then put together a Bible chronological chart and shown more visually the time period of individuals and occasions.
Unfortunately, a many preachers and Bible teachers in our churches continue to preach flimsy, light weight, superficial, shallow sermons and their congregation barely grow in biblical knowledge and understanding. Preachers love to give us'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we truly love people this is what we will do. Unfortunate it seems, if God's men and women are falling through the cracks'for a lack of knowledge' so long as we're positive and loving to all. In truth, the more relevant we become to this world, the less relevant we're to this world.
Some years ago, I was preaching on the life, resurrection, burial and death of Christ Jesus, and a retired pastor and powerful preacher of the Bible, who had been in the ministry for 40 years, marched up and reproved me vigorously over some interesting points I made and he said 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 humbly asked him if I had been saying anything of a heretical nature in any way, to which he said"No". I continued to explain that in the case of that particular Scripture, it was not referring to exploring the Bible but to the false teachings and philosophy of Gnosticism, but he would not accept it. So, how can a 40 year preacher & laborer in the Gospel, not know and understand about a thing that probably 1/2 the books of the New Testament discuss?
How could he understand and teach 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 figure out these things and be in a position to understand their Bible properly, if they're not informed?
Why do we get stuck in a rut of our favorite themes and sugar coated preaching?
We preach on a text from Joshua and a narrative about Ezra and a topic from the book of Titus and then the example of Matthew or the healings through Peter - bits from here and there, but we do not put it all together in a clear understandable, simple to remember, perspective with a decent Bible TimeLine with Church History as well. Constantly we're bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a few of them dangerously leaning toward Progressive thinking, 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 tutors and preachers sew together the aspects of God's Word and God's plan into a logical whole that our people can draw on for the rest of life, to help them to figure out God, His Eternal Plan, the function of the Church and how to better translate the Bible to live by.
It's not hard to do, and it is not boring if we're ready to put in a bit of study with prayer and fervor, and just possibly you can employ a Bible Timeline as well.
For added information concerning a Bible TimeLine go to our Bible TimeLine Chart web site and read up on the scriptural study tool.
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