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Bible Timeline Circle
Bible Timeline Circle
A Biblical Timeline Chart Offers A Graphical Mode To Aid And Help Biblical Events And Realities
In our Bible group some years ago, a lady who had been a Christian and worked in the Church for many years, made this statement,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they weren't talking about the pre-mosaic law) I wonder just how many Christians will actually notice the inaccuracy in this claim. Moses existed some 500 years after Abraham and so it is an impossibility. I have since then made up a Biblical timeline chart and explained visually the time period of people and events.
Regrettably, a numerous preachers and Bible teachers in our churches continue to preach light weight, flimsy, 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 love 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 nice and loving to all. Truly, the more like our world, the less relevant we're to our world.
Years ago, I was preaching on the life, burial, resurrection and death of Jesus, and a retired minister and strong preacher of the Bible, who had been a pastor for 40 years, marched up and reproved me vigorously over some fascinating points I made and he mentioned 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 was preaching anything of a heretical nature at all, to which he answered"No". I continued to explain that in the case of that particular Scripture, it wasn't speaking to exploring Scripture but to the false teachings and school of thought of the Gnostics, but he would not accept it. Let me ask, how can a 40 year preacher & laborer in the Gospel, not understand and know about a thing that possibly 1/2 the books of the New Testament relate to?
How can he study 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 in a position to understand their Bible effectively, if they are not informed?
Why is it that we get stuck in a rut of our favorite topics and feel good discourses?
We preach on a verse from Nehemiah and a narrative about Isaac and a topical from the book of Judges and then the faith of Gideon or the humility of Moses - bits from here and everywhere, but we do not put it all at once in a plain understandable, easy to remember, perspective with a capable Bible TimeLine and Church History as well. Constantly we're bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a few of them dangerously leaning toward Liberal thinking, when if we could be coached the fundamental 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 logical whole that our people can draw on for the rest of their lives, to help them to figure out God, His Eternal Plan, the function of the Church and ways to better translate the Bible to model our lives by.
It's not difficult to do, and it's not boring if we're ready to put in a bit of study and prayer and fervor, and just perhaps you can use a Bible Timeline also.
For added information about a Bible TimeLine check out our Bible TimeLine Chart web site and consider the biblical study resource.
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