CLA History

The ministry of the Christian Law Association effectively began in 1969 with a phone call from a pastor in Ohio.  As a young attorney, David C. Gibbs, Jr. could hardly believe his ears as the pastor relayed how his church was being sued by the state for operating its ministry.  As he reviewed the legal documents Dr. Gibbs was astonished that such a thing could happen in modern America.

From that very first case through the present day, God has blessed Dr. Gibbs' commitment to legally help churches, pastors and Christians free of charge. The ministry has grown substantially through God's blessing over the last 35+ years as attorneys, legal assistants and other ministry workers have joined our team of "legal missionaries."

 CLA Scope

    CLA represents churches:

        * which are clear on the doctrine of Jesus Christ as the only way of salvation, and
        * which are clear on the Bible as the only Divinely inspired, infallible, and complete Word of God by which all areas of faith and life practice are to be controlled.

    CLA legally helps Christians:

        * who are active members of a Bible-believing church, and
        * who are facing legal difficulty for exercising their Bible-based faith.

Please pray for the ministry and staff of the Christian Law Association, as well as for those who are under attack for their faith. Your prayers help more than you realize. If the ministry of the Christian Law Association can legally serve you in any way, it would certainly be our honor and delight to do so.

 
 
At a time when our nation’s government is incurring massive debt injecting taxpayer dollars into America’s failed financial markets and industries, we must ask the question—what has happened to us? There is an answer.  America’s politicians, courts, entrepreneurs and financial leaders have spent decades ignoring the importance of morality and ethics, character traits that can only be sustained through an emphasis on Biblical values.