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Bible Timeline Excel
Bible Timeline Excel
A Biblical Timeline Banner Offers A Graphic Representation To Aid And Help Biblical Events And Characters And Facts
In a Bible group some years ago, one person who had been a Christian and been involved in the local Church for years, said,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they weren't referring to the pre-Moses law) I wonder just how many Christians will really notice the error in this statement. Moses lived 500 years after Abraham and so it is an impossibility. I have since compiled a Bible chronological banner and shown in a more graphic way the chronology of individuals and occasions.
Unfortunately, a large number of Pastors and Bible teachers in our churches go on and preach light weight, shallow, superficial, flimsy sermons and their members scarcely grow in biblical knowledge and understanding. Preachers love to preach'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we truly love people this is what we will do. Regrettable it seems, if God's people are falling through the cracks'for an absence of knowledge' as long as we're positive and loving to all. In truth, the more relevant we become to our world, the less relevant we're to our world.
Years ago, I was teaching on the life, resurrection, death and burial of Jesus, and a retired pastor and powerful preacher of Scripture, who had been a pastor for 40 years, came to me and reproved me smartly over some interesting points I made and he stated 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 saying anything of a heretical nature in any way, to which he replied"No". I continued to explain that in the case of that particular verse, it was not speaking to examining the Bible but to the false teachings and school of thought of the Gnostics, but he would not accept it. So, how can a 40 year preacher & laborer in the Gospel, not know and understand about something that possibly half the books of the New Testament relate to?
How can he study 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 understand these things and be in a position to understand their Bible effectively, if they're not told?
Why is it that we dwell on our pet topics and sugar coated messages?
We teach on a text from Hosea and a story about Moses and a topic from the book of Zephaniah and then the obedience of Jacob or the faith of Noah - pieces from here and everywhere, but we do not put it all together in a visible understandable, simple 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 Progressive thinking, but if we were to be taught the fundamental principles of Church history, we then would not be so doomed to do the same again.
Let's us as instructors and preachers stitch together the aspects of God's Word and His plan into a logical whole that our people are able to draw on for the rest of life, helping them to understand God, His Eternal Plan, the function of the Church and ways to better interpret the Bible to live by.
It's not difficult to do, and it is not boring if we're ready to put in a bit of study and prayer and fervor, and just perhaps you can employ a Bible Timeline also.
For more information about a Bible TimeLine check out our Bible TimeLine Chart web site and see the Bible study resource.
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