{"id":1044,"date":"2021-08-01T17:20:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T17:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2021-08-01T17:20:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T17:20:32","slug":"the-church-is-called-to-do-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=1044","title":{"rendered":"The Church Is Called To Do Good"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Presented at Curwensville Alliance on 8\/01\/21 by Rev. Bernie Knefley.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>As Christians we are called to do good.  <\/strong>But how do we know what is good to do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Church-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1045\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Church-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Church-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Church-2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ultimately we need to love our neighbors to see what the good is we can do for them.<\/strong>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>To be a church of good, we must first be individuals of good. <\/strong> We reflect the goodness of God to those around us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How?  <strong>By showing empathy, compassion and grace.<\/strong>  When we <strong>put others first <\/strong>we show love.  We show good by <strong>actions instead of just words. <\/strong> We <strong>seek justice and serve others<\/strong>.  We live a life of <strong>Christlikeness. <\/strong> <\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4159\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1044-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2021\/20210801GodCallsUsToGoodBernie.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2021\/20210801GodCallsUsToGoodBernie.mp3\">http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2021\/20210801GodCallsUsToGoodBernie.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2021\/20210801GodCallsUsToGoodBernie.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?powerpress_pinw=1044-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2021\/20210801GodCallsUsToGoodBernie.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20210801GodCallsUsToGoodBernie.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presented at Curwensville Alliance on 8\/01\/21 by Rev. Bernie Knefley. As Christians we are called to do good. But how do we know what is good to do? Ultimately we need to love our neighbors to see what the good is we can do for them. To be a church of good, we must first &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=1044\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Church Is Called To Do Good&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,235],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-church","tag-good"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvIY-gQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}