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Bible Timeline Lds
Bible Timeline Lds
A Bible Timeline Chart Presents A Creative Mode To Aid And Help Bible Events And Characters And Truths
In a Bible study some years ago, somebody, who had been a Christian and been involved 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 how many Christians would actually pick up the inaccuracy in this statement. Moses lived five hundred years after Abraham and so it is impossible. I have since then compiled a Biblical chronological banner and explained visually the dating of people and occasions.
Alas, a numerous preachers and teachers in our churches go on and preach light weight, flimsy, superficial, shallow sermons and their members barely grow in Bible knowledge. Preachers love to preach'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we love people this is what we will do. Too bad it seems, if God's men and women are falling through the cracks'for a lack of knowledge' so long as we are nice and loving to all. In reality, the more like our world, the less relevant we are to our world.
Some years ago, I was speaking on the death, burial, resurrection and life of Jesus Christ, and a retired minister and powerful preacher of the Gospel, who had been a pastor for forty years, came to me and reproved me smartly over some interesting points I made and he remarked 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 at all, to which he said"No". I continued to describe that in the case of that particular verse, it wasn't speaking to examining Scripture but to the false teaching and philosophy of the Gnostics, but he wouldn't accept it. Let me ask, how can a forty year preacher & worker in the Gospel, not know and understand about something that probably half the books of the New Testament refer to?
How could he study and teach the Bible clearly without knowing about something 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 well, if they are not informed?
Why is it that we dwell on our pet themes and feel good messages?
We preach on a verse from Nahum and a passage about Jesus and a topic from the book of 2 Kings and then the example of Paul or the miracles through Paul - parts from here and there, but we do not put it all together in an evident understandable, easy to remember, perspective with a good Bible TimeLine including Church History as well. Constantly we are bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, some of them hazardously edging toward Progressive doctrine, when if we could be instructed the basic principles of Church history, we then wouldn't be so bound to do the same again.
Let's us as instructors and preachers sew together the aspects of the Bible and God's plan into a complete picture that our people can draw on for the rest of their lives, helping them to comprehend God, His Eternal Plan, the function 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 are ready to put in a bit of study and prayer and fervor, and just perhaps you can utilize a Bible Timeline also.
For added information about a Bible TimeLine go to our Bible TimeLine Chart site and consider the biblical study resource.
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