5-Minute Sundays
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IF WE DON'T SPEAK THE TRUTH, WHERE WILL THEY HEAR IT?
With an abortion amendment and candidates on the Colorado ballot this November, it is important that Christians vote Biblically. This Church Toolkit, "5-Minute Sundays" compiled by the Colorado Life Initiative Coalition provides quick and simple videos and handouts that any church can do in under 5 minutes for 5 Sundays leading to the election. Colorado early voting may begin as early as October 14th.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14)
​1) Play a video,
2) Pray repentance for families, our church and our state, and
3) Provide a handout to share with others.​​​
Week 1:
Child Development
The Humanity of Preborn Children.
For when he sees his children around him, the work of My hands, they will honor My name, - Isaiah 29:16​
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​Suggested Video: https://www.liveaction.org/along-for-the-ride (4 minutes 28 secs)
or https://babyolivia.liveaction.org (3 minutes 14 seconds)
Suggested Handout:
Week 2:
What is an Abortion?
What a Mother is Choosing.
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​even the compassion of the wicked is cruel. - Proverbs 12:10
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Suggested Video:
(related video: "It's OK')
Suggested Handout:
"What is Abortion/What is a Woman Choosing?"
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Dig Deeper: Videos and Workbooks
https://www.prolifedoc.org/chapter-1-curriculum/
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Abortion Testimonies: Voices of Women & Men
https://www.silentnomoreawareness.org/testimonies/index.aspx
Week 3:
What No One Told Us
How to Help Women and Men in Your Congregation.
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But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out - 1 Cor 10:13
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Suggested Video:
What services are available in your area?
Find a pregnancy center near you
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Suggested Handout:
"What No Told Us About Abortion/Solutions"
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Equip Your Congregation
For Pro Abundant Life:
https://carenetresources.org/online-learning/
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Week 4:
What Does God Say?
The Relevance of God's Word.
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teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you - Matthew 28:20
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​​Suggested Video:
"It's Time for the Church" (1 minute)
Or What Scripture Says (2 minutes)
Suggested Handout:
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Sample Sermons:
What Scripture says about Protecting Preborn Children
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Sermon including fetal development, abortion procedures, Scripture, and political
Resources from Priests For Life:
https://www.priestsforlife.org/preaching/index.aspx​​​
Week 5:
Our Civic Duty
Faith in Action: Live in Freedom.
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law is not enacted for the righteous, but for the lawless -1 Timothy 1
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Screen Announcement:
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Suggested Video:
Colorado Life - Vote NO Ballot Abortion Amendment (1min 16sec)
Suggested Handout:
"White Paper: Colorado Ballot Abortion Amendment 2024"
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To DO More:
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For Further Study:
Biblical Citizenship
Patriot Academy: Biblical Citizenship in Modern America​​
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Pastor's Toolkit
For Civic Engagement:
Did You Know?
The Colorado constitutional amendment on the ballot in November 2024 forces taxpayers to pay for abortions all nine months of pregnancy in unregulated clinics that do not tell women the truth about the procedures and risks of chemical and surgical abortions to their physical and emotional wellbeing* (or about the development of their children), prevents any safeguards for underage girls and women being sex trafficked, coerced, or abused, and no parental involvement for minors. It forces abortion clinics into communities that advertise to minors and women of childbearing years. It forces the tax payer to pay for killing preborn children through chemical and surgical abortions that put a pregnant mother into preterm labor to deliver a dead infant or painfully stretches a mother's cervix to painfully dismember her preterm baby limb from limb, all of which are dangerous to women and deadly to children. The amendment violates the child's right to live. It puts killing children into our state constitution.
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Child sacrifice harms all of us - women, men, families, churches, communities, and our state and nation, but most importantly, it is an unjust law against the 'least of these', denying justice to the most vulnerable among us, violating God's command, "thou shalt not kill (murder innocent human beings)".
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*Risks from abortion (both chemical and surgical) include hemorrhage, infection, infertility, and death. 81% of women experience psychological issues following an abortion including suicidal tendencies, depression, anxiety, rage, and chemical dependence.* An Independent study has shown that at least 1 in 7 women visit an emergency room following an abortion.** Abortionists report that 1 in 25 women visit an emergency room following an abortion.***
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*Abortion and mental health: quantitative synthesis and analysis of research 1995–2009, Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018..
**A Longitudinal Cohort Study of Emergency Room Utilization Following Mifepristone Chemical and Surgical Abortions, 1999–2015, National Library of Medicine, 09 November 2021..
***Incidence of Emergency Department Visits and Complications After Abortion, citing reported billing to Medicaid of California 2009-2010, ACOG, January 2015.