Religion but Not Righteousness
Charles Hodge

People seem to be more interested in being religious than in being righteous – religion and righteousness should go hand in hand. Perhaps this is why James added "pure" to religion when he offered religion as righteousness.

Again, man is instinctively religious. He has this in his soul. But this is not the religion that saves. Actually, instinct and real religion are two different things. But again – our lesson. A sister said, "My religion would not allow me to divorce from my husband." But her religion did not prompt her to be a sweet wife and work at having a good marriage. She had religion but not righteousness.

And this is primarily our trouble. We have religion enough to want our name on the church roll. We will go to much trouble to get our "membership" somewhere, but we have not the righteousness to show responsible duty and dedication. We have enough religion not to shoot anybody, but not enough righteousness to keep our big mouths shut, and to forgive and forget. We have enough religion to argue who's right – but not enough righteousness to teach a Bible study to help save a man's soul. We have enough religion to know that giving is part of one's duty, but not enough righteousness to give liberally, regularly, and lovingly. We know enough about religion to attend once a week but not enough righteousness to attend all gatherings of the saints.

Perhaps our trouble is religion. Jesus said, "hunger and thirst" for righteousness, but not religion. Perhaps we are offering God religion but not righteousness. ❦

Fellowship Cancelled
The fellowship scheduled for after the PM services tonight has been cancelled due to the recent “Hepatitis A” outbreak.

April Calendar
The April edition of the Men To Serve List and Activities Calendar are available to day in the foyer.

Change Your Clocks
Daylight Savings Time begins next Sunday, so be sure to set your clocks FORWARD next Saturday night or you'll be an hour late for services.

Homecoming Plans
Our annual “Homecoming” is planned for April 14^th with brother Howard Johnson as guest speaker. The schedule for that day will be as follows:

Bible Classes ............9:30am
AM Worship.............10:30am
Fellowship Meal.......12 noon
Singing......................1:30pm
PM Worship...............2:30pm

Please note that there will be NO 6pm service on that day.

Ladies Day Tapes
Anyone interested in having an audio tape of the recent Ladies’ Day activities should see Shirley Bauer.

Teacher Needed
A teacher is needed to fill in for Jean Clark while she is away for an extended period of time. The class is the Sunday morning “First Graders”. Please see Greg Littleton for more information.

Relay For Life
As many of you know, some of our members are participating in Auburndale’s Relay For Life, an American Cancer Society’s fundraiser. We have set as our team goal $1000.00. We hope you will be generous in helping us meet that goal. Check the bulletin board for more information.

Johnye Sims

Pantry Item
This month’s pantry item is canned soup. Help us to be prepared when the need arises.

Change Your Directory
Clay and Anne Patnaude and the Carl and Nancy Chambers family have moved. Please make the following changes to your directories:

PATNAUDE, Clayton & Anne....***-****
******** ******** **- Winter Haven, FL *****

CHAMBERS, Carl, Nancy.......***-****
Lillian, Trudi & Christina
*** *** ** ** - Winter Haven, FL *****

Children’s Class
The youngster’s meet for a short period of stories and songs at 5:40 pm each Sunday afternoon. The scheduled teacher this evening is Greg Littleton.

Have you ever noticed that the people who find the time to visit the sick and teach the lost have as much to do as those who do not? It is with them a matter of putting the most important thing first.

UPCOMING AREA EVENTS:

• April 14 - HOMECOMING
Orange Street - Auburndale
w/ Howard Johnson

• April 19-20 - Ladies’ Retreat
Weeki Wachee Christian Camp

• May 18 - Accounting Day
for the “Change For Children” cans