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Bible Timeline For Sunday School
Bible Timeline For Sunday School
A Biblical Timeline Banner Offers A Creative Way To Help Teach Biblical Events And Truths
In a Bible class some years ago, somebody, who had been a Christian and laboured in the Church for many years, said,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they were not talking about the pre-Moses law) I wonder how many Christians will actually notice the error in this claim. Moses lived 500 years after Abraham and so it is not possible. I have since compiled a Biblical chronological banner and explained more visually the time period of men and women and events.
Regrettably, a numerous preachers and teachers in our churches go on and preach flimsy, light weight, shallow, superficial 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 our people this is what we'll do. Regrettable it seems, if God's people are falling through the cracks'for an absence of knowledge' as long as we are positive and loving to all. Truly, the more like the world, the less relevant we are to the world.
Some time ago, I was teaching on the death, burial, life and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and a retired minister and strong preacher of the Gospel, who had been a pastor for forty years, marched up 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 answered"No". I continued to explain that in the case of that particular verse, it was not referring to examining Scripture but to the false teachings and philosophy of Gnosticism, but he wouldn't have it. Let me ask, how can a forty year preacher & laborer in the Gospel, not know and understand about a thing that probably 1/2 the books of the New Testament refer to?
How could he study and teach the Bible fully without being familiar with a thing that was so influential in the New Testament church? And then how can the congregation hope to comprehend these things and be able to interpret their Bible effectively, if they're not informed?
Why is it that we dwell on our pet subjects and sugar coated messages?
We preach on a verse from 2 Chronicles and a passage about John the Baptist and a theme from the book of Ephesians and then the example of Gideon or the miracles of Jesus - parts from here and there, but we do not put it all together in an evident understandable, easy to remember, perspective with a decent Bible TimeLine with Church History as well. Constantly we are bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a number of them hazardously leaning toward Liberal thinking, when if we were to be instructed the fundamental principles of Church history, we then wouldn't be so bound to repeat it.
Let's us as tutors and preachers stitch together the aspects of the Bible and God's plan into a complete picture that our people are able to draw on for the rest of life, helping them to comprehend God, His Eternal Plan, the role of the Church and ways to better translate the Bible to live by.
It is not difficult to do, and it is not boring if we are prepared to put in a bit of study with prayer and fervor, and just maybe you can make use of a Bible Timeline also.
For added information about a Bible TimeLine go over to our Bible TimeLine Chart site and consider the biblical study tool.
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