{"id":1781,"date":"2024-08-26T11:35:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T15:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2024-08-26T11:35:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T15:35:55","slug":"functioning-as-a-family-2-thessalonians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=1781","title":{"rendered":"Functioning As A Family  ::  2 THESSALONIANS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Presented at Curwensville Alliance on 8\/25\/24 by Pastor Steve Shields. <\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen as Pastor Steve discusses how the local church is a family as seen in 2 Thessalonians 3:6-18. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SermonOnlySlide-2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SermonOnlySlide-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SermonOnlySlide-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SermonOnlySlide-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SermonOnlySlide-2-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/SermonOnlySlide-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In the New Testament you see the local church as a family again and again.  <\/strong>The family bond comes down to two things &#8211; <strong>a shared love for Jesus and their proximity to one another. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We also see in this passage three warnings.<\/strong>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Beware of unproductive idleness.  <\/strong>If you do not concern yourself with what God gives you to do, you&#8217;ll likely concern yourself with things that don&#8217;t concern you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Beware of disruptiveness and dissension. <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Beware of drift or straying from the Truth. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What are the steps we can take in order to beware of these things?  <strong>Look for ways to contribute. Accept the differences.  Don&#8217;t let them disrupt what the Spirit is doing.<\/strong> <strong> Stay the course. <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2336\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1781-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2024\/20240825FunctioningAsAFamily2THESSALONIANS.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2024\/20240825FunctioningAsAFamily2THESSALONIANS.mp3\">https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2024\/20240825FunctioningAsAFamily2THESSALONIANS.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2024\/20240825FunctioningAsAFamily2THESSALONIANS.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?powerpress_pinw=1781-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2024\/20240825FunctioningAsAFamily2THESSALONIANS.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20240825FunctioningAsAFamily2THESSALONIANS.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\/25\/24 by Pastor Steve Shields. Listen as Pastor Steve discusses how the local church is a family as seen in 2 Thessalonians 3:6-18. In the New Testament you see the local church as a family again and again. The family bond comes down to two things &#8211; a shared love &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=1781\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Functioning As A Family  ::  2 THESSALONIANS&#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":[365,368],"class_list":["post-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-2thessalonians","tag-functioningasafamily"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvIY-sJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781","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=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1783,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions\/1783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}