The Christian Law Association is a "ministry of legal helps." Its purpose is to provide free legal assistance to Bible-believing churches and Christians who are experiencing legal difficulty in practicing their religious faith because of governmental regulation, intrusion, or prohibition of one form or another.

Since 1969, the number of legal attacks on ministries has exploded. CLA receives in excess of 100,000 phone calls annually, not counting the thousands of pieces of correspondence from those who are in some way facing legal difficulties for doing what the Bible commands. These cases involve Christians arrested for witnessing to others in public, public school students being told they do not have the right to read their Bibles at school, churches being excluded from communities, Christians being fired for sharing their faith at work, and thousands of other shocking assaults on our precious religious freedoms.

The Christian Law Association exists to preserve Christian liberty for your children and grandchildren.

CLA Services

CLA provides the following services:

• Free legal defense of those facing legal difficulties for the Biblical faith
• Free legal counsel to churches and Christians for their ministries
• Legal seminars for ministries to help prevent lawsuits
  
• The Legal Alert radio program broadcast on hundreds of stations around the world
  
• Legal books and other resources to inform Christians of their rights
  
• Preaching in churches across the country
  
• Publication of a monthly newsletter, The Legal Alert
  
• Free legal consulting to local, state, and federal officials and legislators to provide maximum religious liberty
  
• Intercessory prayer ministry for requests sent to the ministry offices

CLA Outreach

CLA attorneys regularly conduct legal seminars and provide on-site training for church and ministry staff.  Every weekend, our "legal missionaries" preach and teach in churches across America.

In order to prevent lawsuits and inform ministry leaders on the latest legal developments, CLA regularly conducts one-day legal seminars across the country.  Because our attorneys specialize in legal issues impacting ministries, our seminars are focused specifically on the most important legal issues facing churches at this moment.

CLA Support

CLA is funded wholly by concerned Christians and churches who wish to support the fight for religious liberty in the United States, and who also have a desire to make it possible for CLA to provide free legal assistance to Bible-believing churches and Christians who are being sued, or threatened with suit, for the Biblical faith.  Contributions can be made online through this website.

Due to the financial support of concerned Christians, CLA is able to provide legal representation at no cost to thousands of pastors and believers who have been sued, arrested, or jailed for the Biblical faith. CLA legal missionary attorneys and support staff do not bill for their time, regardless of whether the person or ministry seeking our assistance financially supports CLA.

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.