At the tender age of four, David Gibbs III knew who his Savior was and even before being old enough to attend school he committed his life to Christ.
“I feel as a young Christian I had the privilege of getting saved before I had lots of the horrible things that can scar or grab your life but I also had the privilege of being trained thoroughly in the Word of God,” David explains.
With that privilege, David would grow to assume great responsibility. God had very big plans for him.
“I then had the privilege of growing up in a Christian home and going to Christian schools and on to Bible college before I went to Duke Law School,” he recalls.
With his Christian upbringing and strong rooted faith, David has become one of the country’s leading Christian attorneys. He is the founder of the Christian Law Association. He was the attorney who fought for the life of Terri Schiavo, representing Terri’s parents during one of this nation’s most-well known right-to-life cases.
“We have watched the battle for lives in America expand into all new plateaus. People used to talk about the issue of life, they were talking about abortion, and Roe vs. Wade in 1973, the court case that legalized abortion. The “life battles” have run now the spectrum where now it’s even ahead of the womb, dealing with test tubes going to life at a natural end due to old age. So, it’s becoming an even more complicated arena.” He goes on to say,
“I encourage people to really remember a couple of things; number one, we need to recognize that life is a gift from God. The minute you get away from life coming from God you can argue evolutionarily, survival of the fittest, the strong survive and the weak get thrown away. But when you recognize that this is from God meaning God gives it purpose and then God does some things. He puts blessings in our lives and we appreciate those. But He also puts tribulations, burdens and pressures and He has a purpose in those. But regardless of what’s in your life, good or bad, God and God alone should determine when life ends. That’s when you really see a collision of viewpoints.”
His deep convictions obviously are at the very core of what he fights for…something a liberal professor once warned him against.
David says, “I had a professor at Duke Law School tell me that I was going to burn out because I was too passionate and that I argue like it matters. He told me to argue the point, just get paid and whatever happens happens. But as Christians we can’t live that way because it does matter whether someone knows Christ or whether someone dies in their sin and goes to hell.”
There are a number of grave issues facing the United States and David is a much sought after attorney who, in part two of this story will explain the moral dilemma’s America is facing as well as how we, as a nation can find redemption in God’s eyes.
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