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Bible Timeline Guided Journal
Bible Timeline Guided Journal
A Biblical Timeline Presents A Creative Representation To Help Teach Biblical Events And Characters And Principles
In our Sunday Bible study some years ago, a friend who had been a Christian and worked in the Church for years, asserted that,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they were not talking about the pre-Moses law) I wonder just how many Christians would actually notice the error in this assertion. Moses existed some 500 years after Abraham and so it is not possible. I have since made up a Biblical chronological chart and shown more visually the time period of individuals and occasions.
Unfortunately, a numerous Pastors and Bible teachers in our churches continue to preach light weight, superficial, shallow, flimsy messages and their members hardly grow in biblical knowledge. Preachers love to give us'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we truly love people this is what we will do. Too bad it seems, if God's people are falling through the cracks'for a lack of knowledge' as long as we're positive and loving to all. Truly, the more like the world, the less relevant we're to the world.
Years ago, I was speaking on the resurrection, burial, death and life of Christ Jesus, and a retired minister and powerful preacher of the Gospel, who had been a minister for forty years, came to me and reproved me vigorously over some fascinating 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 was saying anything of a heretical nature at all, to which he answered"No". I continued to describe that in the case of that particular verse, it was not speaking to exploring the Bible but to the false teaching and school of thought of Gnosticism, but he wouldn't accept it. Let me ask, how can a forty year preacher & 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 fully 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 interpret their Bible well, if they are not informed?
Why do we dwell on our pet themes and sugar coated discourses?
We teach on a verse from Amos and a passage about Solomon and a topic from the book of Hosea and then the faith of Joshua or the perseverance of Noah - bits from here and there, but we do not put it all at once in an evident understandable, simple to remember, perspective with a decent Bible TimeLine and Church History as well. Constantly we're bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a number of them perilously edging toward Progressive thinking, when if we were to be coached the basic principles of Church history, we then wouldn't be so doomed to repeat it.
Let's us as tutors and preachers sew together the aspects of God's Word and His plan into a complete picture that our people are able to draw on for the remainder 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 live by.
It's not difficult to do, and it's not boring if we're ready to put in a bit of study with prayer and fervor, and just maybe you can utilize a Bible Timeline also.
For added information about a Bible TimeLine check out our Bible TimeLine Chart web site and consider the scriptural study resource.
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