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Bible Timeline Book Of Acts
Bible Timeline Book Of Acts
A Biblical Timeline Banner Offers A Graphical Approach To Help Teach Biblical Events And Realities
In our Sunday Bible class years ago, somebody, who had been a Christian and been involved in the local Church for over 15 years, asserted that,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they were not referring to the pre-mosaic law) I wonder just how many Christians would actually notice the error in this assertion. Moses came about 500 years after Abraham and so it is an impossibility. I have since put together a Biblical timeline banner and shown visually the dating of people and occasions.
Regrettably, a many preachers and Bible teachers in our churches go on and preach superficial, light weight, shallow, flimsy messages and their congregation barely grow in Bible knowledge. Preachers love to give us'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we truly love our people this is what we'll do. Regrettable it seems, if God's men and women are falling through the cracks'for an absence 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.
Years ago, I was preaching on the death, life, resurrection and burial of Jesus, and a retired minister and powerful preacher of Scripture, who had been a pastor for forty years, marched up and reproved me smartly over some fascinating points I made and he noted 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 said"No". I continued on to explain that in the case of that particular verse, it wasn't speaking to exploring the Bible but to the false teaching and philosophy of Gnosticism, but he wouldn't accept it. Let me ask, how can a forty year minister & laborer in the Gospel, not understand and know about something that possibly half the books of the New Testament discuss?
How can he study and preach the Bible clearly without being aware of something that was so influential in the New Testament church? And then how can the congregation hope to figure out these things and be able to interpret their Bible well, if they are not informed?
Why do we get stuck in a rut of our pet themes and feel good sermons?
We preach on a verse from 2 Thessalonians and a story about Noah and a topic from the book of Joshua and then the example of David or the humility of Moses - bits from here and all over, but we do not put it all at once in an obvious understandable, simple to remember, perspective with a good Bible TimeLine and Church History as well. Constantly we're bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a number of them hazardously leaning toward Liberal theology, when if we were to be taught the basic principles of Church history, we then wouldn't be so bound to repeat it.
Let's us as tutors and preachers stitch together the fragments of God's Word and God's plan into a seamless tapestry that our people can draw on for the remainder of life, helping them to figure out God, His Eternal Plan, the function of the Church and ways 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 effort prayer and fervor, and just possibly you can use a Bible Timeline as well.
For more information concerning a Bible TimeLine check out our Bible TimeLine Chart web site and read up on the biblical study tool.
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