Preaching Through The Bible More Effectively With A Bible Timeline Chart
Unfortunately, a numerous Pastors and Bible teachers in our churches continue to preach flimsy, shallow, superficial, light weight messages and their members scarcely 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. Unfortunate 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 truth, the more relevant we become to the world, the less relevant we are to the world.
Years ago, I was preaching on the burial, death, resurrection and life of Jesus Christ, and a retired minister and strong preacher of Scripture, who had been a minister for 40 years, came up and reproved me smartly over some fascinating points I made and he stated 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 preaching anything of a heretical nature in any way, to which he replied"No". I continued on to spell out that in the case of that particular Scripture, it wasn't referring to examining the Bible but to the false teaching and school of thought of Gnosticism, but he wouldn't accept it. So, how can a 40 year minister & worker in the Gospel, not know and understand about a thing that possibly 1/2 the books of the New Testament refer to?
How could he understand and teach the Bible fully without knowing about 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 able to understand their Bible properly, if they are not informed?
Let's us as teachers and preachers stitch together the fragments of God's Word and His plan into a complete picture that our people are able to draw on for the remainder of life, helping them to figure out God, His Eternal Plan, the role of the Church and how to better translate 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 study with prayer and fervor, and just possibly you can utilize a Bible Timeline also.
For more information concerning a Bible TimeLine go to our Bible TimeLine Chart web site and read up on the biblical study tool.
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