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The Bible Timeline Chart
The Bible Timeline Chart
A Biblical Timeline Chart Offers A Creative Mode To Aid And Help Biblical Characters And Events And Truths
In our Bible group years ago, one person who had been a Christian and laboured 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-Moses law) I wonder just how many Christians will actually pick up the error in this assertion. Moses lived 500 years after Abraham and so it is impossible. I have since then made up a Bible chronology chart and shown in a more graphic way the chronology of individuals and events.
Unfortunately, a large number of preachers and teachers in our churches go on and preach shallow, flimsy, superficial, light weight messages and their Church members hardly grow in biblical knowledge. Preachers love to preach'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we truly love our people this is what we'll do. Unfortunate it seems, if God's men and women are falling through the cracks'for an absence of knowledge' as long as we are nice and loving to all. In truth, the more like the world, the less relevant we are to the world.
Some time ago, I was preaching on the burial, resurrection, life and death of Jesus Christ, and a retired minister and strong preacher of Scripture, who had been in the ministry for 40 years, marched up and reproved me vigorously over some fascinating points I made and he referred to 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 had been teaching anything of a heretical nature in any way, to which he replied"No". I continued to describe that in the case of that particular verse, it wasn't referring to exploring the Bible but to the false teachings and philosophy of the Gnostics, but he wouldn't have it. Let me ask, how can a 40 year preacher & laborer in the Gospel, not understand and know about a thing that possibly 1/2 the books of the New Testament discuss?
How can he study and preach the Bible in fullness without being aware of a thing that was so influential in the New Testament church? And then how can the congregation hope to figure out these things and be in a position to interpret their Bible effectively, if they are not informed?
Why is it that we dwell on our favorite topics and feel good sermons?
We instruct on a text from Hosea and a passage about Abraham and a theme from the book of Mark and then the faith of Moses or the miracles of Jesus - bits from here and all over, but we do not put it all together in an evident understandable, simple 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 dangerously leaning toward Progressive thinking, but if we were to be coached the basic principles of Church history, we then wouldn't be so bound to do the same again.
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 remainder of their lives, to help them to figure out God, His Eternal Plan, the role of the Church and how to better translate the Bible to live by.
It's not difficult to do, and it's not boring if we are prepared to put in a bit of study with prayer and fervor, and just maybe you can utilize a Bible Timeline as well.
For more information about a Bible TimeLine go to our Bible TimeLine Chart website and view the scriptural study resource.
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