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The Bible Timeline Thomas Robinson
The Bible Timeline Thomas Robinson
A Biblical Timeline Chart Presents A Creative Approach To Aid And Help Biblical Events And Characters And Facts
In our Bible class some years ago, a friend who had been a Christian and worked in the Church for years, said,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they were not referring to the pre-Moses law) I wonder how many Christians will actually pick up the inaccuracy in this statement. Moses came about five hundred years after Abraham and so it is impossible. I have since then put together a Biblical timeline and explained visually the time period of individuals and events.
Alas, a large number of Pastors and teachers in our churches continue to preach shallow, flimsy, light weight, superficial sermons and their Church members scarcely grow in biblical knowledge and understanding. Preachers love to give us'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we really love our people this is what we will do. Regrettable it seems, if God's people are falling through the cracks'for a lack of knowledge' as long as we're positive and loving to all. In reality, the more like the world, the less relevant we're to the world.
Some years ago, I was preaching on the burial, death, resurrection and life of Jesus Christ, and a retired minister and powerful preacher of Scripture, who had been a minister for forty years, came up and reproved me smartly over some interesting 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 quietly asked him if I was teaching anything of a heretical nature at all, to which he said"No". I continued on to spell out that in the case of that particular verse, it was not speaking to examining the Bible but to the false teachings and school of thought of Gnosticism, but he would not accept it. So, how can a forty year preacher & laborer in the Gospel, not understand and know about something that probably 1/2 the books of the New Testament relate to?
How could he study and teach the Bible clearly 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 in a position to understand their Bible effectively, if they are not told?
Why is it that we get stuck in a rut of our favorite topics and feel good sermons?
We instruct on a verse from Acts and a narrative about Jesus and a topical from the book of Genesis and then the obedience of Solomon or the fleece of Gideon - pieces from here and there, but we do not put it all at once in an obvious understandable, easy to remember, perspective with a capable Bible TimeLine with Church History as well. Constantly we're bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, some of them hazardously leaning toward Liberal doctrine, but if we could be taught the basic principles of Church history, we then would not be so doomed to repeat it.
Let's us as teachers and preachers stitch together the fragments of God's Word and God's plan into a logical whole 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 order our lives by.
It is not hard to do, and it is not boring if we're ready to put in a bit of study with prayer and fervor, and just maybe you can utilize a Bible Timeline as well.
For more info about a Bible TimeLine check out our Bible TimeLine Chart web site and consider the Bible study resource.
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