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The Bible Timeline Jeff Cavins
The Bible Timeline Jeff Cavins
A Bible Timeline Presents A Graphic Mode To Aid And Help Bible Events And Characters And Facts
In our Bible group years ago, a woman who had been a Christian and worked in the local Church for over 15 years, made this statement,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they weren't talking about the pre-mosaic law) I wonder just how many Christians would actually notice the inaccuracy in this statement. Moses lived some 500 years after Abraham and so it is impossible. I have since compiled a Biblical timeline chart and explained in a more graphic way the chronology of people and events.
Regrettably, a many Pastors and Bible teachers in our churches go on and preach superficial, shallow, light weight, flimsy sermons and their members scarcely grow in biblical knowledge. Preachers love to preach'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we really love people this is what we will do. Too bad it seems, if God's people are falling through the cracks'for a lack of knowledge' as long as we're nice and loving to all. In reality, the more relevant we become to our world, the less relevant we're to our world.
Some time ago, I was speaking on the life, burial, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and a retired minister and powerful preacher of the Gospel, who had been in the ministry for 40 years, marched up and reproved me vigorously over some interesting points I made and he noted 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 to explain that in the case of that particular Scripture, it wasn't referring to exploring Scripture but to the false teachings and school of thought of the Gnostics, but he would not have it. So, how can a 40 year minister & laborer in the Gospel, not understand and know about something that probably 1/2 the books of the New Testament refer to?
How could he study and teach the Bible in fullness without being aware of 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 understand their Bible well, if they're not told?
Why do we dwell on our pet subjects and feel good discourses?
We teach on a text from 2 Timothy and a passage about Luke and a topical from the book of Ruth and then the faith of Peter or the miracles through Paul - pieces from here and everyplace, but we do not put it all at once in an obvious understandable, simple to remember, perspective with a good Bible TimeLine including Church History as well. Constantly we're bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, some of them dangerously leaning toward Liberal thinking, but if we could be coached the fundamental principles of Church history, we then would not be so bound to do the same again.
Let's us as instructors and preachers stitch together the fragments of God's Word and God's plan into a complete picture that our people can draw on for the remainder of life, to help them to comprehend God, His Eternal Plan, the role of the Church and how to better interpret the Bible to order our lives by.
It is not difficult to do, and it's not boring if we're prepared to put in a bit of study and prayer and fervor, and just perhaps you can employ a Bible Timeline too.
For more info concerning a Bible TimeLine check out our Bible TimeLine Chart website and consider the Bible study resource.
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