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Bible Timeline Creation
Bible Timeline Creation
A Bible Timeline Chart Offers A Creative Mode To Help Teach Bible Characters And Events And Principles
In our Sunday Bible group some years ago, one person who had been a Christian and worked in the Church for many years, said,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they weren't talking about the pre-Moses law) I wonder how many Christians would actually notice the inaccuracy in this claim. Moses came about 500 years after Abraham and so it is an impossibility. I have since then made up a Bible timeline banner and shown more visually the chronology of individuals and occasions.
Regrettably, a numerous preachers and Bible teachers in our churches go on and preach superficial, light weight, flimsy, shallow sermons and their members barely grow in biblical knowledge. Preachers love to give us'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we really love people this is what we'll do. Unfortunate it seems, if God's men and women are falling through the cracks'for an absence of knowledge' so long as we are nice and loving to all. Truly, the more like the world, the less relevant we are to the world.
Some years ago, I was speaking on the resurrection, burial, death and life of Jesus Christ, and a retired minister and powerful preacher of the Bible, who had been a pastor for forty years, came up and reproved me smartly over some fascinating 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 quietly asked him if I was 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 verse, it wasn't speaking to examining the Bible but to the false teaching and philosophy of the Gnostics, but he would not have it. So, how can a forty year preacher & laborer in the Gospel, not know and understand about something that possibly half the books of the New Testament relate to?
How could he understand and teach the Bible clearly without being familiar with something 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 understand their Bible properly, if they are not informed?
Why do we get stuck in a rut of our pet subjects and sugar coated sermons?
We teach on a text from Jude and a story about Nehemiah and a topical from the book of Nehemiah and then the example of Noah or the humility of Moses - bits from here and everyplace, but we do not put it all together in a clear understandable, easy to remember, perspective with a capable Bible TimeLine and Church History as well. Constantly we are bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, some of them dangerously leaning toward Progressive theology, but if we could be taught the fundamental principles of Church history, we then would not be so doomed to repeat it.
Let's us as teachers and preachers sew together the fragments of the Bible and His plan into a complete picture that our people are able to draw on for the rest of their lives, to help them to comprehend God, His Eternal Plan, the role of the Church and how to better interpret the Bible to order our lives by.
It is not difficult to do, and it is not boring if we are ready to put in a bit of effort prayer and fervor, and just perhaps you can utilize a Bible Timeline also.
For added info about a Bible TimeLine check out our Bible TimeLine Chart site and check out the Bible study tool.
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