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Bible Timeline Chart Pdf
Bible Timeline Chart Pdf
A Bible Timeline Chart Presents A Graphical Approach To Aid And Help Bible Events And Principles
In our Bible class some years ago, one person who had been a Christian and worked in the Church for 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 will really notice the error in this assertion. Moses lived 500 years after Abraham and so it is not possible. I have since then compiled a Biblical timeline and shown visually the chronology of men and women and occasions.
Alas, a many preachers and Bible teachers in our churches continue to preach shallow, superficial, flimsy, light weight messages and their congregation barely grow in biblical knowledge. Preachers love to preach'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we truly love people this is what we will do. Unfortunate it seems, if God's people are falling through the cracks'for an absence of knowledge' as long as we're nice 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 teaching on the burial, resurrection, death and life of Jesus Christ, and a retired minister and powerful preacher of the Gospel, who had been a pastor for 40 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 said"No". I continued on to explain that in the case of that particular verse, it was not referring to examining Scripture but to the false teaching and school of thought of the Gnostics, but he wouldn't accept it. Let me ask, how can a 40 year minister & worker in the Gospel, not understand and know about a thing that possibly 1/2 the books of the New Testament discuss?
How can he understand and preach the Bible clearly without knowing about 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 able to understand their Bible effectively, if they're not told?
Why is it that we dwell on our pet themes and sugar coated preaching?
We instruct on a text from 2 Kings and a passage about Noah and a theme from the book of Thessalonians and then the obedience of Jacob or the healings through Peter - 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 and Church History as well. Constantly we're bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a number of them dangerously leaning toward Progressive doctrine, but if we could be taught the fundamental principles of Church history, we then wouldn't be so doomed to repeat it.
Let's us as teachers and preachers stitch together the fragments of the Bible and God's plan into a seamless tapestry that our people can draw on for the rest of their lives, helping them to figure out 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're ready to put in a bit of study and prayer and fervor, and just maybe you can utilize a Bible Timeline too.
For added information concerning a Bible TimeLine go to our Bible TimeLine Chart web site and check out the scriptural study resource.
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