An astonishing number of young people can’t answer questions like, “Where is Genesis in the Bible?”, “what are the gospels?”, or “what is sin?” Even many kids raised in churches don’t have an understanding of basic biblical principles.

One way we can fight this growing biblical illiteracy is by teaching the Bible chronologically. Teaching Jonah one week and Jesus feeding the 5,000 the next makes the Bible seem like a confusing jumble of people, places, times, and events. But the Bible shouldn’t be confusing!

When we teach the events in Scripture in the order of how they happened, you know what, the Bible really does come to life.