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Bible Timeline Bracelet
Bible Timeline Bracelet
A Biblical History Timeline Offers A Creative Mode To Aid And Help Biblical Events And Facts
In our Bible study some years ago, a woman who had been a Christian and worked in the local Church for years, said,"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 would actually notice the inaccuracy in this assertion. Moses existed 500 years after Abraham and so it is an impossibility. I have since put together a Biblical timeline and shown in a more graphic way the dating of individuals and events.
Alas, a large number of Pastors and teachers in our churches continue to preach flimsy, shallow, superficial, light weight messages and their members hardly grow in Bible knowledge. Preachers love to preach'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we love our people this is what we'll do. Regrettable it seems, if God's men and women are falling through the cracks'for a lack of knowledge' as long as we're positive and loving to all. In truth, the more relevant we become to the world, the less relevant we're to the world.
Years ago, I was teaching on the burial, death, resurrection and life of Jesus, and a retired minister and powerful preacher of the Gospel, who had been a minister for 40 years, came to me and reproved me smartly over some interesting 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 humbly asked him if I was saying anything of a heretical nature at all, to which he said"No". I continued to explain that in the case of that particular verse, it was not speaking to examining Scripture but to the false teachings and philosophy of Gnosticism, but he would not accept it. Let me ask, how can a 40 year preacher & worker in the Gospel, not understand and know 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 comprehend these things and be in a position to interpret their Bible properly, if they are not informed?
Why do we get stuck in a rut of our favorite topics and feel good sermons?
We teach on a text from Esther and a narrative about Peter and a topical from the book of Acts and then the example of Solomon or the healings through Peter - parts from here and all over, but we do not put it all together in a visible understandable, easy to remember, perspective with a decent Bible TimeLine including Church History as well. Constantly we're bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, some of them hazardously leaning toward Progressive thinking, when if we were to be instructed the basic principles of Church history, we then would not be so doomed to repeat it.
Let's us as tutors and preachers stitch together the fragments of the Bible and God's plan into a seamless tapestry that our people are able to draw on for the rest of life, to help 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's not difficult to do, and it is not boring if we're prepared to put in a bit of effort prayer and fervor, and just perhaps you can use a Bible Timeline too.
For more information concerning a Bible TimeLine go over to our Bible TimeLine Chart website and see the Bible study resource.
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