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The Bible Timeline Dvd
The Bible Timeline Dvd
A Biblical Timeline Offers A Creative Representation To Help Teach Biblical Characters And Events And Realities
In our Bible class years ago, a friend 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 were not referring to the pre-mosaic law) I wonder just how many Christians will really pick up the error in this assertion. Moses existed some 500 years after Abraham and so it is an impossibility. I have since put together a Biblical timeline and explained graphically the dating of men and women and occasions.
Regrettably, a numerous Pastors and teachers in our churches go on and preach light weight, superficial, shallow, flimsy sermons and their Church members scarcely grow in Bible knowledge and understanding. Preachers love to preach'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we love our people this is what we will do. Too bad 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 reality, the more relevant we become to the world, the less relevant we are to the world.
Some years ago, I was teaching on the death, life, resurrection and burial of Jesus Christ, and a retired minister and powerful preacher of the Bible, who had been a pastor for forty years, came to me and reproved me smartly 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 quietly asked him if I was saying anything of a heretical nature at all, to which he said"No". I continued on to describe that in the case of that particular verse, it was not referring to examining Scripture but to the false teaching and school of thought of the Gnostics, but he would not have it. Let me ask, how can a forty year preacher & worker in the Gospel, not understand and know about something that probably half the books of the New Testament relate to?
How can he study and teach 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 figure out these things and be able to understand their Bible effectively, if they're not told?
Why is it that we get stuck in a rut of our pet themes and sugar coated sermons?
We instruct on a verse from Lamentations and a passage about David and a theme from the book of Luke and then the faith of Abraham or the perseverance of Noah - bits from here and everyplace, but we do not put it all together in a visible understandable, simple to remember, perspective with a good Bible TimeLine with Church History as well. Constantly we are bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, some of them hazardously edging toward Progressive thinking, but if we could be coached the basics of Church history, we then would not be so doomed to repeat it.
Let's us as teachers and preachers stitch together the aspects of the Bible and God's plan into a logical whole that our people are able to draw on for the remainder of life, helping them to figure out God, His Eternal Plan, the role of the Church and ways to better interpret the Bible to model our lives by.
It is not hard to do, and it is not boring if we are ready to put in a bit of study with prayer and fervor, and just possibly you can utilize a Bible Timeline as well.
For added info about a Bible TimeLine go over to our Bible TimeLine Chart site and check out the scriptural study resource.
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