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The Bible Timeline Catholic
The Bible Timeline Catholic
A Bible Timeline Banner Gives A Graphical Approach To Help Teach Bible Events And Characters And Principles
In our weekly Bible study years ago, a lady who had been a Christian and been involved in the Church for years, asserted that,"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 actually notice the error in this claim. Moses existed about five hundred years after Abraham and so it is an impossibility. I have since made up a Biblical timeline and explained graphically the chronology of people and occasions.
Alas, a numerous Pastors and Bible teachers in our churches continue to preach superficial, light weight, shallow, flimsy sermons 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'll do. Regrettable it seems, if God's men and women are falling through the cracks'for a lack of knowledge' so long as we're positive and loving to all. Truly, the more like our world, the less relevant we're to our world.
Some time ago, I was speaking on the resurrection, life, death and burial of Jesus Christ, and a retired pastor and powerful preacher of the Gospel, who had been a minister 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 quietly asked him if I was preaching anything of a heretical nature in any way, to which he answered"No". I continued to describe that in the case of that particular verse, it wasn't speaking to examining Scripture but to the false teachings and philosophy of the Gnostics, but he wouldn't have it. Let me ask, how can a 40 year minister & worker in the Gospel, not understand and know about something that possibly 1/2 the books of the New Testament refer to?
How can he understand and preach the Bible in fullness 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 in a position to understand their Bible effectively, if they are not informed?
Why is it that we get stuck in a rut of our pet topics and feel good messages?
We teach on a text from Obadiah and a story about Hezekiah and a topical from the book of Nehemiah and then the obedience of Jamws or the strength of Samson - bits from here and there, but we do not put it all together in a clear understandable, easy to remember, perspective with a decent Bible TimeLine with Church History as well. Constantly we're bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, some of them perilously leaning toward Liberal doctrine, but if we could be coached the basic principles of Church history, we then wouldn't be so bound to do the same again.
Let's us as teachers and preachers stitch together the fragments of the Bible and His plan into a complete picture that our people can draw on for the remainder of their lives, to help them to comprehend God, His Eternal Plan, the function of the Church and how to better translate the Bible to live by.
It is not hard to do, and it's not boring if we're prepared to put in a bit of study and prayer and fervor, and just possibly you can utilize a Bible Timeline too.
For added information concerning a Bible TimeLine go over to our Bible TimeLine Chart web site and consider the Bible study tool.
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