{"id":2091,"date":"2025-09-16T07:50:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=2091"},"modified":"2025-09-16T07:50:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:50:53","slug":"what-are-we-doing-here-the-church-and-its-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=2091","title":{"rendered":"What Are We Doing Here? &#8211; The Church and Its Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Presented at Curwensville Alliance on 9\/7\/25 by Pastor Steve Shields.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is the church? <\/strong>A building. A family. A gathering. A moral and cultural fixture. A body. <strong>God&#8217;s implement to shatter the gates of hell.<\/strong><\/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\/2025\/09\/Clipboard04-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2093\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Clipboard04-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Clipboard04-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Clipboard04-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Clipboard04-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Clipboard04-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why I&#8217;m committed to Alliance Missions.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Our message is the centrality of Christ.<\/strong> Jesus answered &#8220;I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.&#8221; John 14:6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Our mission is to complete the great commission. <\/strong>A commission is a calling to complete a task. &#8220;&#8230;go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.&#8221; Jesus in Matthew 28:19-20<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Our method is to plant missionary churches.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Our members are a missionary movement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3864\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2091-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2025\/20250907WhatAreWeDoingHere.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2025\/20250907WhatAreWeDoingHere.mp3\">https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2025\/20250907WhatAreWeDoingHere.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2025\/20250907WhatAreWeDoingHere.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?powerpress_pinw=2091-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2025\/20250907WhatAreWeDoingHere.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20250907WhatAreWeDoingHere.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 9\/7\/25 by Pastor Steve Shields. What is the church? A building. A family. A gathering. A moral and cultural fixture. A body. God&#8217;s implement to shatter the gates of hell. Why I&#8217;m committed to Alliance Missions. Our message is the centrality of Christ. Jesus answered &#8220;I am the way and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=2091\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What Are We Doing Here? &#8211; The Church and Its Mission&#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":[420],"class_list":["post-2091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-whatarewedoinghere"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvIY-xJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091","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=2091"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2095,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions\/2095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}