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The Bible Timeline Workbook
The Bible Timeline Workbook
A Bible Timeline Chart Presents A Graphic Way To Help Teach Bible Events And Characters And Truths
In our Sunday Bible class some 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 how many Christians will really pick up the error in this claim. Moses came about about five hundred years after Abraham and so it is impossible. I have since then put together a Biblical history timeline and explained in a more graphic way the time period of individuals and occasions.
Regrettably, a numerous Pastors and teachers in our churches go on and preach shallow, light weight, flimsy, superficial messages and their congregation barely grow in Bible knowledge and understanding. Preachers love to give us'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we truly 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' so long as we are positive and loving to all. In reality, the more like the world, the less relevant we are to the world.
Years ago, I was teaching on the resurrection, life, burial and death of Christ Jesus, and a retired pastor and powerful preacher of the Gospel, who had been a minister for 40 years, came up and reproved me vigorously over some fascinating points I made and he remarked 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 preaching anything of a heretical nature at all, to which he answered"No". I continued to describe that in the case of that particular Scripture, it was not referring to examining the Bible but to the false teaching and school of thought of Gnosticism, but he wouldn't have it. Let me ask, how can a 40 year preacher & worker in the Gospel, not know and understand about a thing that possibly half the books of the New Testament relate to?
How could he study and preach the Bible clearly without being familiar with a thing that was so influential in the New Testament church? And then how can the congregation hope to understand these things and be able to interpret their Bible properly, if they are not informed?
Why is it that we get stuck in a rut of our pet subjects and feel good messages?
We teach on a text from 3 John and a passage about Adam and a topical from the book of Malachi and then the example of David or the 'water into wine' - pieces from here and everyplace, but we do not put it all at once in a clear understandable, simple to remember, perspective with a capable Bible TimeLine and Church History as well. Constantly we are bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a few of them dangerously leaning toward Liberal thinking, but if we could be instructed the basics of Church history, we then wouldn't be so doomed to repeat it.
Let's us as tutors and preachers stitch together the fragments of the Bible and God's plan into a seamless tapestry that our people can draw on for the rest of life, helping them to understand God, His Eternal Plan, the function of the Church and how to better interpret the Bible to model our lives 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 employ a Bible Timeline too.
For more info concerning a Bible TimeLine go over to our Bible TimeLine Chart website and view the biblical study resource.
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