Implementing Making Life Disciples
This page is designed to provide you with supplemental materials to enhance your church's delivery of the Making Life DisciplesTM (MLD) curriculum.
- Now available V 2.0 Order HERE.
- Join the movement to bring Making Life Disciples to your church. Sign up at makinglifedisciples.com.
What is Making Life Disciples
Making Life Disciples is a ministry resource designed to equip the church to offer compassion, hope, help, and discipleship to women and men facing pregnancy decisions. It is a practical ministry response to the abortion crises. Download your program flyer to see the details of each lesson and what training is available.
How do I Implement Making Life Disciples?
Find one or two others at your church and first commit to pray about bringing this life-affirming ministry to your church. Next, commit together with them to become more informed and prepared. We have put together a three step guide as you start this process and we offer one-on-one support through our staff of regional coordinators. Download your guide below.
MLD Leaders
This section contains ministry resources you can use to raise awareness and equip your church (and others) with a Christ-like, practical response to abortion. You will find our most current brochure that explains what Making Life Disciples 2.0 is and does, graduation certificates to honor those who are trained with this life-affirming resource, as well as commissioning service options. Additionally, you will find various downloadable images and flyers, along with our most recent Sanctity of Human Life kit.
Here is a sharable brochure to help explain the vision and purpose of MLD in your church or parish:
The Big Picture
Making Life Disciples Trailers
These videos give a quick overview of the program and are great to share with others
- NEW - Our updated trailer that features MLD 2.0
- 5 Minute trailer - great for small group introductions
- 2 Minute trailer - great for use in church services as a short highlight
Shareable Videos
Life Affirming Partners
What do you do once the 12-week training course is complete? We believe individuals in churches are hungry to serve. Our team is here to support you as you plan your unique ministry opportunities in your church. Our "Next Steps" guide help your team to cast a ministry vision and carry out Pro-Abundant Life ministry in your local church. Download your free comprehensive guide below.
Next Steps After You Are Trained
Equal Rights Institute - Equal Rights Institute trains pro-life advocates to think clearly, reason honestly, and argue persuasively. They use speaking, writing, podcasts, campus outreach, and online courses to equip pro-life people in the areas of practical dialogue tips, pro-life philosophy, and relational apologetic. They believe that the pro-life movement becoming more loving and thoughtful is a necessary (although not sufficient) condition to change our culture enough to end legal abortion. This is why they speak so often on relational apologetics, which they define as “cultivating relationships with people who have different beliefs, for the sake of genuine friendship and for discovering truth together.
Pastor Thabiti Anyabwile Interview with Roland C. Warren
Roland Warren - Boundaries: The Parable of the Good Samaritan
Roland Warren - Keynote at "Together for Life" Pastor's Breakfast
Four Videos from Dr Tony Evans on Abortion
Each of these videos can be shared with others in your church or community
Research
In this section you will find an abundance of ministry resources where you can dig even deeper into the subject of abortion. These can be used to help inform and equip yourself and are also great to share with others
- 2019 Abortion Facts for Pastors
- Access Care Net's report, Abortion and the Church
- Read Christianity Today coverage of Care Net's Abortion and the Church report (PDF)
- What Christians Want Pastors to Preach About - from the American Culture and Faith Institute
Life-Affirming Sermons and Articles
- It is essential that we show Christ's love to those who are walking the difficult road of an unplanned pregnancy. What can you do to help? Roland Warren, president of Care-net, will help us find our role in caring for these vulnerable mothers, fathers, and babies. Podcast interview on Moody Radio
- "10 Things Not to Do When a Woman Tells You She Wants an Abortion" (PDF download)
- Four Gospel-centered Things Every Pastor Can Do to Decrease the Impact of Abortion
Pastor David Platt on “Praying and Working for Justice: Abortion
Media
Making Life Disciples Graduation Certificate
Making Life Disciples Commissioning Service Options
Downloadable Making Life Disciples Logos:
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You can download and print nine different 8.5 x 11 posters, customize them with your ministry's information, and post them in prominent areas to direct people to your MLD support team. Download these posters for free here.
Your free Sanctity of Human Life Kit includes:
- Guide for Pastors on Making the Most of Sanctity of Human Life Sunday by Dr. Greg Austen, Care Net's Executive Director of Church Outreach and Engagement
- A message demonstrating the need for life support in order to promote decisions for life: Pastor Tim Hawks shares where the church can make a difference in how we support women and men making pregnancy decisions, overcoming objections to choosing life.
- ERI's Pastor's Pledge: Here, noted scholar and cultural influencer Josh Brahm of Equal Rights Institute (ERI) seeks to come alongside pastors as they pledge to be an advocate for families who are facing unplanned pregnancies. This pledge encourages the church to treat individuals with grace and compassion instead of shame and rejection.
- 31 Ways to be Pro Abundant Life: 31 practical and compassionate ways to help your congregation live out their pro-life beliefs in a post-Roe world.
- Making Life Disciples 2.0 informational brochure.
- And a selection of sharable videos to encourage and inspire.
Get your free kit here.
Healing Resources for Abortion Recovery
Forgiven and Set Free is a world-renowned Bible study by Linda Cochrane – Executive Director of Hopeline Women's Center in Danbury, Connecticut, Linda is associated with the term PACE (Post-Abortion Counseling and Education) – that addresses post-abortion trauma and recovery.
My Ashes to Beauty is a ministry that integrates the Word of God, prayer, recovery tools, and a safe, loving environment for women to share their abortion stories. Their site hosts blogs to read and meditate on, resources, information about a weekly Sunday afternoon Christ-Centered topical conference call, Bible studies, and individual support when needed. All inquiries are confidential. Ministry verses are Isa. 61:1-3
SaveOne offers help for men, women, and family members/friends, through group study, online study, or answering questions and giving encouragement through self-study. They have a Bible based curriculum that was written by our founder Sheila Harper. Sheila chose abortion in 1985 for her first child and lived with mental and emotional anguish for 7 years following that choice. Their book is written from her personal experience of healing after abortion. Check out their “Success Stories” to see what other people are saying about the help SaveOne gave them.
Building a Culture of Relational Apologetics around MLD
Building a Gospel-centered Team Around MLD
Churches for Life - The mission of Churches for Life is to nourish churches as gospel-driven champions of life. Their distinctive focus is to start Life Teams in churches who work with the church leadership to equip their congregation to honor and dignify all life from conception to natural death. Churches for Life trains Life Teams and then provides support and encouragement through ongoing coaching. Their three passions are 1) The gospel of Jesus Christ 2) the local church and 3) championing life
Embrace Grace - Embrace Grace is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization formed for the purpose of providing emotional, practical and spiritual support for single, young women who find themselves in an unintended pregnancy. The primary goal of Embrace Grace is to empower churches across the nation to be a safe and non-judging place for the girls to run to when they find out they are pregnant, instead of the last place they are welcomed because of shame and guilt.
Discipleship Content/Event for the End User
Tim Hawks of Hill Country Bible Church, TX presents a compelling vision of the difference the church can make in reaching those at risk for abortion
The Life of a Single Mom - TLSM works to educate single mothers on the importance of heir overall health & wellness. Each year, we offer hundreds of hours in one-on-one counseling. Our programs include: mentoring, both in-person and online educational classes, and so much more!