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The Bible Timeline Guided Journal
The Bible Timeline Guided Journal
A Biblical Timeline Gives A Graphic Way To Help Teach Biblical Events And Principles
In our Sunday Bible study some years ago, a friend who had been a Christian and been involved in the local Church for years, asserted that,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they weren't referring to the pre-Moses law) I wonder just how many Christians will actually notice the error in this claim. Moses came about about five hundred years after Abraham and so it is impossible. I have since then compiled a Bible timeline chart and shown graphically the chronology of men and women and events.
Alas, a large number of Pastors and teachers in our churches continue to preach light weight, shallow, flimsy, superficial sermons and their congregation barely grow in Bible knowledge. Preachers love to give us'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we really love people this is what we'll 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. Truly, the more like the world, the less relevant we are to the world.
Years ago, I was preaching on the death, burial, life and resurrection of Christ Jesus, and a retired pastor and powerful preacher of the Bible, who had been a minister for forty years, came up and reproved me smartly over some interesting 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 was teaching anything of a heretical nature in any way, to which he said"No". I continued to describe that in the case of that particular Scripture, it was not speaking 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 forty year minister & worker in the Gospel, not understand and know about something that probably half the books of the New Testament discuss?
How could he understand and preach the Bible clearly without knowing about 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 interpret their Bible properly, if they are not told?
Why do we get stuck in a rut of our pet topics and sugar coated preaching?
We teach on a verse from Hebrews and a story about Solomon and a theme from the book of Habakkuk and then the obedience of Gideon or the miracles of Jesus - bits from here and all over, but we do not put it all together in an apparent understandable, simple to remember, perspective with a decent Bible TimeLine including Church History as well. Constantly we are bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, some of them hazardously leaning toward Progressive theology, when if we could be instructed the basic principles of Church history, we then would not be so doomed to do the same again.
Let's us as instructors and preachers sew together the fragments of the Bible and His plan into a complete picture that our people can draw on for the rest of their lives, to help them to figure out God, His Eternal Plan, the function of the Church and how to better interpret the Bible to model our lives by.
It's not hard to do, and it is not boring if we are prepared to put in a bit of study with prayer and fervor, and just perhaps you can employ a Bible Timeline as well.
For added info concerning a Bible TimeLine go to our Bible TimeLine Chart site and consider the Bible study resource.
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