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Rev. Dick Reese A-''.
Crossroads Methodist Church iHIb isl
“ E i c e pi yo u r
righteousness shall ex
ceed the righteousness of the
scribes and Pharisees.”
(Matt. 5:20)
Most of those who read this
column are probably
professing Christians. Many
are “church people.”
Others, perhaps, do not fit
neatly into these two groups.
But it is to the professing
Christian, the church goer,
that our thoughts turn when
we read this passage of
scripture from Matthew’s
Gospel. The Scribes and
Pharisees were religious
people. It was to these
religious people that Jesus
referred when he said, “your
righteousness must exceed
their righteousness or you
cannot enter the Kingdom of
Heaven.
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What was wrong with the
righteousness of the Scribes
and Pharisees? Inthe first
place their religion was not
long enough. If a person did
not keep the letter of the law
in outward observance, he
was not considered by the
Scribes and Pharisees to be
acceptable. They had no
patience with those who did
not live up to their ex
pectations. What about our
own religion? How does it
regard the needy, the man
with radical views, the
unbeliever? If our religion is
to be in harmony with the
teaching of Jesus Christ, it
must be long on reach. It
must reach beyond our
family and friends to love
even the enemy and the
undesirables of the world.
In the second place, Jesus
reminded the Pharisees that
their religion was not broad
enough. It was mainly a
religion of “Thou Shall
N0t...” With little emphasis
on what man should do.
Certainly an adequate faith
will involve some things we
should not do, but its em
phasis will be on the positive,
the things we can affirm and
believe and act out in our
lives. It will help us to set
some faraway goals of great
purpose that may seem to
difficult to capture at the
moment, but which over the
long pull will find us adding
to the positive good in the
world rather than dwelling
on the negative. We need a
broad religion that includes
some prohibitions, but one
that places the primary
emphasis on the positive
actions we can take in the
name of Christ.
Jesus also reminded the
Scribes and Pharisees that
their religion was not deep
enough. They were stem in
their judgement of those who
failed. They had completely
lost the idea from their
religion that a person could
suffer so that others may be
saved. It was to explain and
show the meaning of this
kind of suffering that Jesus
came into the world. We also
need a deep religion that
includes the giving of our
selves for others.
The religion of the scribes
and Pharisees was likewise
not high enough. It was
concerned more with the
present and the actual. It
had no adventure in it. It was 4
an earth bound faith. We
ought to be concerned with
the affairs of earth, but this
concern must come out of a
deeper experience with and
commitment to God in Jesus
Christ.
Men long ago put Christ to
death because their faith
was inadequate. Is our faith
today any better? ‘‘Unless
your righteousness (faith
right living) exceeds that of
the scribes and
Pharisees,you shall not
enter the Kingdom of
Heaven.”
Middle Georgia
Air Force Assoc.
Seeks Members
The Middle Georgia
chapter of the Air Force
Association has launched a
membership drive on two
levels.
A general membership
drive will seek out new
members and also mem
bership renewals from
former members. Another
drive is aimed at life
memberships.
“Our first goal is to insure
the leadership of the Middle
Georgia chapter in the ranks
of the AFA in Georgia,” said
President William Wlsse,
Warner Robins attorney.
“Secondly, we want to insure
that when all of the life
memberships are identified
at the next national con
vention, that Georgia will
lead the nation, and the
Middle Georgia chapter will
lead Georgia.”
He emphasized that the
AFA should have a strong
representation from the
community at large, and
from Robins AFB. “In this
way, the AFA Middle,
Georgia chapter is first a
meeting place, a forum, a
vantage point from which
anyone can meet people with
similar interests from
throughout the area.
Secondly, the AFA affords us
a voice at both the state and
national levels on issues of
mutual concern. Thirdly,
there are many associated
benefits which accrue to
members.”
The Middle Georgia
chapter is AFA’s chapter of
the year, and was recognized
at the national level. The
chapter has won awards for
its initiative in gaining new
members and for aiding in
the chartering of other
chapters.
I,ocally, the chapter has
been most active on the
prisoner of war issue,
sponsoring the first forums
at the local and state levels*
to bring the issue into focus.
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The chapter also helped to
launch Houston County as
the school system with the
most successful Air Force
Junior ROTC approach in
the state. Other projects
have included scholarships
for base personnel enrolled
in adult education, money
for the base’s annual
Summer Youth Program,
and recreational projects on
base.
H. L. Everett of Macon,
state president of the AFA,
said that currently there are
2,500 members in Georgia, of
which 1,400 are members of
the Middle Georgia chapter.
"However, the potential is
even greater in Middle
Georgia, and we could easily
double that figure.’’
Everett said that at the
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end of the current mem
bership drive, "we hope that
Middle Georgia will have
more members than any
local chapter at any of the
Air Force Com
mand depot host cities.
Secondly, we want Georgia
to be ahead of any state
having AFLC depots.”
There is an on-base
steering committee to
facilitate the membership
drive. It is headed by Colonel
P.P. Blackley, Warner
Robins Air Materiel Area
Directorate of Materiel
Management, Logistics
Systems Management
Division. Others on the
committee are Lieutenant
Colonel E.B. Severson,
WRAMA Office of In
formation, Herb E. Eschen,
PAGE 8-B
Perry Power Men Attend
District Clinic In Mcßae
Georgia Power Company
employees from this and
Macon, of the Directorate of
Plans and Management,
Logistics Research and
Management Division, and
Chief Master Sergeant C. M.
Hill, Senior Airman Advisor
for WRAMA.
Eschen said, "here in
Middle Georgia, we actually
have the potential for
becoming the largest AFA
chapter in the world, and
that is now our goal.”
PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 19 72
other cities in the company’s
Mcßae district recently
attended a one-day ap
pliance service clinic in
Mcßae.
They are E. J. Arrington
and C. F. Harrell, Mcßae;
M.A. Gammage and T. J.
Coleman, Perry; B. G.
Anderson and R. F. Harris,
Eastman; A. C. Miller, and
C. T. Foster, Cochran; M. E.
Tharpe and L. E. Lowery,
Hawkinsville, and S. W.
Carter and B. M. Jackson,
Hazlehurst.
James C. Thompson,
Atlanta, Georgia Power’s
appliance service depart
ment manager, supervised
the clinic. H. P. Johnson and
J. M. Proffitt, also of the
department, assisted.
Mr. Thompson said that
similar clinics for other
division servicemen are
scheduled throughout the
state. The clinics are
designed to familiarize the
servicemen with the latest
improvements in domestic
appliances.
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