Teaching The Bible More Effectively Using A Bible Timeline Chart
Alas, a numerous preachers and Bible teachers in our churches go on and preach light weight, superficial, shallow, 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. Unfortunate it seems, if God's men and women are falling through the cracks'for a lack of knowledge' so long as we are positive and loving to all. Truly, the more relevant we become to our world, the less relevant we are to our world.
Some time ago, I was teaching on the death, life, resurrection and burial of Christ Jesus, and a retired minister 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 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 humbly asked him if I was teaching anything of a heretical nature at all, to which he replied"No". I continued to spell out that in the case of that particular verse, it was not speaking to examining Scripture but to the false teaching and philosophy of Gnosticism, but he wouldn't have it. Let me ask, how can a 40 year preacher & laborer in the Gospel, not know and understand about a thing that possibly 1/2 the books of the New Testament relate to?
How could he study and preach the Bible clearly without being aware of a thing that was so influential in the New Testament church? And then how can the congregation hope to understand these things and be in a position to understand their Bible well, if they are not informed?
Let's us as tutors and preachers stitch together the aspects of the Bible and His plan into a logical whole that our people can draw on for the remainder of their lives, to help them to understand God, His Eternal Plan, the role of the Church and ways to better translate the Bible to order our lives by.
It is not difficult to do, and it's not boring if we are prepared to put in a bit of study and prayer and fervor, and just perhaps you can utilize a Bible Timeline too.
For more information concerning a Bible TimeLine go over to our Bible TimeLine Chart website and see the biblical study resource.
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