Goals
Since its founding in 1961, CLS’ nine organizational objectives, as set forth in its amended not-for-profit articles of incorporation, have been:
- To proclaim Jesus as Lord through all that we do in the field of law and other disciplines;
- To provide a means of society, fellowship and nurture among Christian lawyers;
- To encourage Christian lawyers to view law as ministry;
- To clarify and promote the concept of the Christian lawyer and to help Christian lawyers integrate their faith with their professional lives;
- To mobilize, at the national and local levels, the resources needed to promote justice, religious liberty, the inalienable right to human life, and biblical conflict reconciliation
- To encourage, disciple and aid Christian students in preparing for the legal profession;
- To provide a forum for the discussion of problems and opportunities relating to Christianity and the law;
- To cooperate with bar associations and other organizations in asserting and maintaining high standards of legal ethics; and,
- To encourage lawyers to furnish legal services to the poor and needy, and grant special consideration to the legal needs of churches and other charitable organizations.
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“Despicable means used to achieve laudable goals renders the goals themselves despicable.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that “all of our problems” come from such goals, is left to eat, drink, sleep, or, when he gets sick of that, to run up to a chest and smash his forehead on its corner.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.”
—Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)