About Us
We are more than a group of lawyers. We are attorneys, advocates, and believers in God and His Word, united by a shared commitment to serve people with compassion, integrity, and purpose.
About Us
We are more than a group of lawyers. We are attorneys, advocates, and believers in God and His Word, united by a shared commitment to serve people with compassion, integrity, and purpose.
About Us
We are more than a group of lawyers. We are attorneys, advocates, and believers in God and His Word, united by a shared commitment to serve people with compassion, integrity, and purpose.
Who Are We?
We are followers of Jesus who are doing our best to live out our faith and see the world through a biblical lens. What does that mean (see the world through a Biblical lens)? It means we try to take what we are taught in the Bible, both in word and through the examples found in numerous stories and parables, and do our best to live them out here in the 21st century.
We are Christians who are Lawyers, Pastors, Doctors, Professors, Website Designers, Ministry leaders, I.T. Professionals, Nannies, Marketers, Construction workers, U.S. Citizens, Immigrants, Permanent Residents, and everything in between. Jesus’s Church is made up of every nationality, language, ethnicity and culture.
We are called to follow Jesus and His teachings first and foremost (Acts 5:29). Today, in the United States, we fear there are too many Christians and those who claim to follow Jesus, who have abandoned what the Bible says about how we should treat our neighbor, how we should treat the immigrant/sojourner living amongst us, and have traded Jesus’ way for a different way. A way that has placed legalism over love, nation over Jesus, and race/ethnicity over the Imago Dei (the biblical teaching that we are all created in the unique likeness and image of God, Gen. 1:27).
Who is my neighbor?
While biblical truths can allow for varying opinions and ideas over what a Nation’s immigration policy may look like, the teachings of the Bible should never be ignored, mocked or rejected by those leading a nation who sincerely wish to honor and follow God. As Christians it is our duty to support leaders who will pass legislation and implement policy that honors these biblical axioms so our nation can honor Jesus and glorify Him through our actions and that our nation likewise might be blessed as it blesses others (Acts 5:29, Isaiah 10:1-2, Psalm 33:12).
Jesus Loves Immigrants exists to be that reminder to all Christians everywhere, but especially in the United States, in our call to remember what the Lord our God says about how we treat immigrants. It turns out He has a great deal to say about it. And our laws, policies and implementation of those laws need to reflect God’s heart towards immigrants and sojourners amongst us, whether they entered the country legally or not.
Even the enforcement of our immigration laws against those who violated our nation’s immigration laws, should reflect God’s heart in that it is just, merciful, graceful, generous and loving. Our attitude and posture towards immigrants, even if they have broken our laws, should reflect dignity, respect and love.
Call to Action
We invite you to
1. Know what God’s word says on the matter with respect to immigrants,
2. Contemplate and pray to God asking how He wishes your heart and mind be with respect towards “your neighbor” and immigrants living among us?
3. Remember that your love of country should never come before your love of God and love of others,
4. Be a voice for justice and mercy (Micah 6:8). The Bible says “Do justice and love mercy”. Those are both verbs. Actions. What are you doing to bring forth God’s justice and mercy?
It is not enough to sit at home and think “well, that is tough, but it isn’t my problem” or “well, they are getting what they deserve.” God does not look kindly at His followers who tacitly support injustice and evil by their inaction or worse by their voting for leaders who implement cruelty and levy injustice through their harsh treatment of “the least of these” among us. You have a duty to love and support the poor, the immigrant, the widow and orphan. Do nothing and you are no better than the unbeliever who does not know God. Worse, you ruin your testimony and sully the name of Jesus who called us to be salt and light in this world in how we love and treat others. We cannot allow the church to be rendered useless as our fellow man (majority who are believers in Jesus) are persecuted, jailed and their families subjected to unnecessary cruelty while we have the power to enact change.
Jesus Loves Immigrants. That is an undeniable fact. He loves them even if they broke immigration laws to enter the U.S. Just as He loves you even as you sin, He loves the immigrants just the same.
As we figure out the way forward as a nation with respect to immigration law and policy, may we, God’s people, His Holy Church, be found loving our neighbors, giving mercy to those who need it, being graceful even to those who broke the law, and being generous to them just as our God has been generous to us. If we err, may it be said we erred on the side of love and mercy.
“The Lord watches over the foreignerand sustains the fatherless and the widow.”
Psalm 146:9 (KJV)