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Bible Timeline Dates
Bible Timeline Dates
A Bible Timeline Banner Presents A Graphic Mode To Help Teach Bible Events And Principles
In our weekly Bible class years ago, a friend 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 weren't talking about the pre-Moses law) I wonder just how many Christians will really notice the inaccuracy in this assertion. Moses came about 500 years after Abraham and so it is impossible. I have since compiled a Bible chronological chart and explained in a more graphic way the chronology of men and women and occasions.
Alas, a numerous preachers and teachers in our churches go on and preach flimsy, shallow, superficial, light weight messages and their Church members scarcely grow in Bible knowledge and understanding. Preachers love to preach'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we truly love our people this is what we will do. Regrettable it seems, if God's people 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 burial, resurrection, death and life of Jesus Christ, and a retired pastor and strong preacher of the Gospel, who had been a pastor for forty years, marched up and reproved me vigorously over some interesting points I made and he referred to 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 had been teaching anything of a heretical nature in any way, to which he replied"No". I continued to describe that in the case of that particular verse, it wasn't speaking to exploring the Bible but to the false teachings and philosophy of the Gnostics, but he wouldn't accept it. So, how can a forty year minister & laborer in the Gospel, not know and understand about something that probably half the books of the New Testament relate to?
How could he understand and teach the Bible in fullness without being familiar with 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 properly, if they're not informed?
Why do we get stuck in a rut of our pet topics and feel good discourses?
We preach on a text from Amos and a narrative about Nehemiah and a theme from the book of Exodus and then the example of John the Baptist or the faith of Noah - bits from here and everyplace, but we do not put it all at once in an obvious understandable, easy to remember, perspective with a capable Bible TimeLine and Church History as well. Constantly we are bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a few of them hazardously edging toward Liberal theology, when if we could be instructed the basic principles of Church history, we then wouldn't be so bound to repeat it.
Let's us as instructors and preachers sew together the fragments of the Bible and His plan into a seamless tapestry that our people can draw on for the rest of their lives, to help them to figure out God, His Eternal Plan, the role of the Church and how to better interpret the Bible to model our lives by.
It is not hard to do, and it's not boring if we are ready to put in a bit of study and prayer and fervor, and just perhaps you can utilize a Bible Timeline also.
For added info about a Bible TimeLine go to our Bible TimeLine Chart website and check out the Bible study resource.
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