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Bible Timeline Esther Nehemiah
Bible Timeline Esther Nehemiah
A Bible Timeline Gives A Creative Representation To Help Teach Bible Events And Principles
In a Bible study years ago, a woman who had been a Christian and worked in the local 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 just how many Christians would actually notice the inaccuracy in this assertion. Moses existed about five hundred years after Abraham and so it is impossible. I have since then compiled a Biblical history timeline and explained more visually the chronology of people and occasions.
Unfortunately, a large number of preachers and teachers in our churches go on and preach shallow, superficial, light weight, flimsy sermons and their Church members hardly grow in biblical knowledge and understanding. Preachers love to give us'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're positive and loving to all. Truly, the more relevant we become to our world, the less relevant we're to our world.
Years ago, I was speaking on the death, life, resurrection and burial of Jesus Christ, and a retired minister and powerful preacher of Scripture, who had been in the ministry for 40 years, came up and reproved me vigorously over some interesting 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 humbly asked him if I was preaching anything of a heretical nature in any way, to which he said"No". I continued to spell out that in the case of that particular Scripture, it was not speaking to exploring the Bible but to the false teaching and philosophy of the Gnostics, but he wouldn't have it. So, how can a 40 year minister & laborer in the Gospel, not know and understand about something that probably 1/2 the books of the New Testament relate to?
How could he study and preach 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 understand these things and be able to understand their Bible effectively, if they are not informed?
Why is it that we dwell on our pet themes and feel good discourses?
We instruct on a verse from Romans and a narrative about Moses and a topical from the book of James and then the example of Paul or the faith of Noah - pieces from here and everywhere, but we do not put it all at once in a visible understandable, easy to remember, perspective with a good Bible TimeLine including Church History as well. Constantly we're bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a few of them perilously edging toward Liberal theology, but if we were to be taught the basics of Church history, we then wouldn't be so bound to do the same again.
Let's us as tutors and preachers stitch 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 understand God, His Eternal Plan, the function of the Church and ways to better translate the Bible to live by.
It's not hard to do, and it's not boring if we're ready to put in a bit of effort prayer and fervor, and just maybe you can utilize a Bible Timeline as well.
For added info concerning a Bible TimeLine check out our Bible TimeLine Chart site and check out the biblical study tool.
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