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The Bible Timeline Chart Jeff Cavins
The Bible Timeline Chart Jeff Cavins
A Biblical History Timeline Presents A Creative Way To Aid And Help Biblical Events And Facts
In a Bible study years ago, a friend who had been a Christian and laboured in the local Church for 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 would actually pick up the inaccuracy in this statement. Moses existed about five hundred years after Abraham and so it is not possible. I have since then put together a Bible timeline and explained more visually the dating of people and occasions.
Regrettably, a many preachers and teachers in our churches continue to preach superficial, light weight, flimsy, shallow messages and their Church members barely grow in biblical knowledge. Preachers love to preach'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we truly love people this is what we'll do. Unfortunate it seems, if God's people are falling through the cracks'for an absence of knowledge' so long as we are positive and loving to all. Truly, the more relevant we become to the world, the less relevant we are to the world.
Years ago, I was teaching on the resurrection, death, life and burial of Jesus, and a retired pastor and powerful preacher of the Gospel, who had been a minister for forty years, marched up and reproved me smartly over some fascinating points I made and he mentioned 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 replied"No". I continued on to explain that in the case of that particular verse, it was not referring to examining Scripture but to the false teaching and philosophy of the Gnostics, but he wouldn't have 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 discuss?
How can he understand and preach the Bible in fullness 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 able to interpret their Bible well, if they are not told?
Why do we get stuck in a rut of our favorite topics and feel good sermons?
We instruct on a text from Genesis and a passage about Jesus and a theme from the book of Galatians and then the faith of Peter or the miracles of Jesus - parts from here and all over, but we do not put it all together in an apparent understandable, easy to remember, perspective with a capable Bible TimeLine including Church History as well. Constantly we are bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a few of them perilously edging toward Liberal theology, when if we could be taught 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 sew together the fragments of the Bible and His plan into a complete picture that our people are able to draw on for the rest of their lives, to help them to comprehend God, His Eternal Plan, the function of the Church and how to better interpret 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 effort prayer and fervor, and just possibly you can utilize a Bible Timeline also.
For more information about a Bible TimeLine go over to our Bible TimeLine Chart site and check out the Bible study resource.
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