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What Does a Life Team Do?

Every CFL-born Life Team, regardless of their specific plans, is trained to be gospel-driven, unified, consistent, multi-faceted, trusted, resourced, interfacing, and engaged. Beyond these universal Team traits, the question inevitabily comes, "What will our specific Life Team actually do?"  

CFL equips Life Teams with the skills to seek God for His specific plans for them.  This biblical paradigm ensures that a particular Life Team follows God (not CFL) according to His plans for their particular Team in their particular church in their particular community.  Here are some concrete examples of things God has actually done through various Life Teams:

  • Help congregants connect the gospel to the life arena - that is, help them enjoy being rescued by Christ in the gospel and gratefully live that out as rescuers
  • Train congregants with a biblical worldview of the sanctity of human life
    • What does it mean to be human?
    • What does biotechnology have to do with human dignity?
    • What does the Bible say about embryonic technology?
    • And more...
  • Help moms and dads in crisis pregnancies
    • Help female congregants get trained to counsel women facing a crisis pregnancy
    • Collect baby items (e.g. diapers) in the church to help women with newborns
    • Mentor men who are part of a crisis pregnancy
    • Connect pregnant couples to resources that enable them to choose life
    • Provide safe homes for women in crisis pregnancies and dangerous circumstances
    • Raise funds to support local Christian crisis pregnancy centers
    • Invite speakers to give testimony to choosing life in the midst of a crisis pregnancy
    • And more...
  • Rescue unwanted children by adoption
    • Inform congregation about the need for adoptive families
    • Connect the biblical doctrine of our adoption in Christ with the physical practice of adopting children
    • Inform congregants about the adoption process and encourage them to explore the idea
    • Support adoptive families in the church
    • And more...
  • Expose those cast down by a past abortion both inside and outside the church to the gospel for healing 
  • Equip congregants in gracious cultural engagement and apologetics regarding life issues
  • Equip congregants with gracious biblical guidance regarding life-related legislative issues
  • Defend human embryos from destruction
  • Dignify the infirm and elderly in danger of euthanasia
  • Dignify and serve those with special needs in the congregation and community
  • Help congregants make biblical, careful end-of-life decisions
  • Challenge congregants regarding care for orphans via foster care, etc.
  • Strengthen and build up their own Life Team - tend to internal Team health
  • Mentor young people into lives of sexual integrity
  • Mentor parents and youth workers to equip young people for lives of sexual integrity
  • Support single-parent families
  • And much, much more! 
Take heart that Life Teams don't have to be experts in all the things they do to equip the congregation.  Many of the examples above were accomplished by God through Life Teams that sought trustworthy resources outside their Team and church.
 
From here, you might want to visit these two web pages for more information, then contact us at info@getintolife.org to get started.
 
 

 
CFL trains life teams to pull together as a gospel-driven group of "rescued rescuers."

 
More Info on Life Teams

 

Short Videos

What is a "Life Team?" (personal explanation by CFL President, Pastor Douglas W. Merkey, 4 mins.)

How CFL can serve your church (useful for getting the big picture, 3 mins.)

Web Pages

What is a Life Team?

What does a Life Team do? 

How is a Life Team Built?

Who is a Life Team Member?

Who is a Life Team Leader? 

Articles on how to do life ministry for Life Teams, leaders, and more.


To get started building a Life Team in your church, contact us at info@getintolife.org

 

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