Christians get into disputes just like anyone else.   As a Christian Minister for decades, Attorney Atherton knows this truth very well.  In his capacity as a minister, he has seen the Lord move in extraordinary ways to resolve disputes, restore relations and work out solutions in situations that seemed impossible to all concerned.  In his capacity as an attorney, he is steeped in helping a wide variety of clients resolve their family, business, estate, and other disputes through negotiation, litigation and alternative dispute resolution.  These experiences uniquely qualify Christian Minister and Attorney Steven H. Atherton to help churches generally and believers specifically resolve their disputes through negotiation, mediation and/or arbitration.

In providing mediation and arbitration services to the Christian community, Mr. Atherton is keenly aware of Christ’s warnings to lawyers and guidance to believers on various matters as well as the Apostle Paul’s admonition to the Corinthian Church, where he stated:

1. Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
2. Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
3. Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
4. If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.
5. I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
6. But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
7. Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather [suffer yourselves to] be defrauded?
8. Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that [your] brethren.  I Corinthian 6:1-9.

He also knows the riches of the Old and New Testaments’ abundant teachings on and case studies of God’s justice, judgment, wisdom, mercy, grace, equity, power and love prevailing in the affairs of men.   Trusting in that same Lord (who remains the same yesterday, today and tomorrow), Mr. Atherton is blessed to be a part of God’s ministry to His Body through his Christian Alternative Dispute Resolution practice.  If you believe Mr. Atherton can be of help to satisfactorily resolving your dispute, please give us a call to discuss how he might be able to do that.