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Bible Timeline Hub
Bible Timeline Hub
A Bible Timeline Chart Gives A Graphical Representation To Aid And Help Bible Events And Principles
In our Sunday Bible group years ago, somebody, 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 referring to the pre-mosaic law) I wonder just how many Christians will really pick up the error in this statement. Moses came about about five hundred years after Abraham and so it is not possible. I have since then made up a Bible timeline banner and shown graphically the dating of individuals and occasions.
Unfortunately, a many preachers and Bible teachers in our churches continue to preach flimsy, superficial, shallow, light weight sermons and their Church members barely grow in biblical knowledge. Preachers love to give us'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we love our people this is what we'll do. Regrettable it seems, if God's men and women are falling through the cracks'for an absence of knowledge' as long as we are positive and loving to all. In truth, the more relevant we become to the world, the less relevant we are to the world.
Years ago, I was preaching on the resurrection, death, life and burial of Jesus Christ, and a retired minister and strong 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 said 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 preaching anything of a heretical nature in any way, to which he said"No". I continued to explain that in the case of that particular verse, it wasn't referring to examining the Bible but to the false teaching and philosophy of Gnosticism, but he would not have it. Let me ask, how can a 40 year preacher & laborer in the Gospel, not know and understand about a thing that probably half the books of the New Testament discuss?
How can he study and preach the Bible in fullness without being familiar with a thing that was so influential in the New Testament church? And then how can the congregation hope to understand these things and be able to interpret their Bible well, if they're not informed?
Why do we get stuck in a rut of our favorite subjects and feel good sermons?
We preach on a text from Genesis and a passage about John and a theme from the book of Exodus and then the example of Solomon or the perseverance of Noah - bits from here and all over, but we do not put it all together in a visible understandable, simple to remember, perspective with a capable Bible TimeLine with Church History as well. Constantly we are bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, some of them perilously edging toward Liberal doctrine, when if we could be instructed the basic principles of Church history, we then would not be so doomed to repeat it.
Let's us as instructors and preachers stitch together the aspects of God's Word and God's plan into a logical whole that our people are able to draw on for the remainder 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 order our lives by.
It's not hard to do, and it is not boring if we are prepared to put in a bit of effort prayer and fervor, and just maybe you can make use of a Bible Timeline as well.
For added info about a Bible TimeLine go to our Bible TimeLine Chart website and consider the Bible study tool.
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