Brad Dacus of Pacific Justice Institute

National Religious Broadcasters Convention 2024

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Leray Heyne  00:22

Welcome back to Jesus Christ CEO TV where we are filming live on the exhibit floor of the National Religious Broadcasters convention and conference in Nashville, Tennessee. And we are here introducing our new virtual reality technology that will be in our studios around the globe. And we are showing this off and talking about what Jesus is doing in business. But I have a dear friend with me, Brad Degas with Pacific Justice Institute. And I want Brad to talk a little bit different. He's been with us many times he was with our consecration service last year. And we're going to talk to Brad about the power of media and how it is helped his platform and his ministry and his business with Pacific Justice Institute. Thank you, Brad for taking the time to sit down with me. 

Brad Dacus  01:09

Oh, it's a pleasure!

Leray Heyne  01:10

I guess stand up with me. 

Brad Dacus  01:12

That's right. Let's stand up. Standing for truth 

Leray Heyne  01:16

Yeah. So we ran into a couple of people here, believe it or not, that don't know, Brad Decas don't know Pacific Justice Institute, we were quite as shocked. What do you mean, you don't know, Brad? And so tell people who Brad is and what Pacific Justice Institute is just in case they don't know you? 

Brad Dacus  01:32

Certainly. Certainly. Well, we are a nonprofit 501 C three, Legal Defense Organization. As you know, Leray, we have offices all across the United States. In fact, we have more offices on the East Coast than we do on the west coast, the Pacific coast. We do all our work without charge. And we're very unique in that we don't just cherry pick a few high profile cases deal with religious freedom, parents rights against the government of the sanctity of life, we may work hard to make sure that no one is left on the side of the road. That is our goal to make sure that everyone gets the help that they need. It's a bonafide ministry.

Brad Dacus  02:07

Right. 

Brad Dacus  02:07

And we work hard to to empower evangelism and faith in different forms, including in the workplace, and for business owners. 

Leray Heyne  02:16

Right, right. So what are kinds of what are some of the top cases specific justices who's working on right now? 

Brad Dacus  02:23

Well, one of them is actually defending a business owner up in Washington State. It's an individual it's a family actions or Korean family, they're Christians. They have a Korean woman spa. And so a man comes in and says, Hey, I want to go into women's spa. They said, Absolutely not. There's mothers and their daughters in there. And Korea's paws are one other kind where you don't wear clothes. Yeah, that's a part of the culture. So he said, Absolutely not. These will be visually violated. You taking off your clothes and being naked in front of them. Absolutely not. He leaves. He reports him to the Washington State Human Rights Commission. This is like George Orwell's 1984, where the the actual name means the opposite of what they are you. And so they go and oppress this Christian oil business. They file a lawsuit to shut them down to try to force them to let men who have who are turned off most of them are turned on by women, even if they're transgender category to let these men go into the women's spa be naked in front of them. Look at the women who are naked and their daughters. That is what the state of Washington is suing about. There's sick, it's demented. We at Pacific Justice have stepped in like we pledged Yeah, we represent them without charge. We haven't now Penny before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. There's a good chance leeway that this could go to the Supreme Court. 

Leray Heyne  03:48

Wow. Wow. So you mentioned that this is for everybody. You don't hold anybody back you're not just taking high profile cases right? How do people get a hold of Pacific Justice Institute? 

Brad Dacus  03:58

Oh, it's really easy. They just simply go to our our website, pji.org or if they want to, they can just text PJI to the number 71541. I remember it as a 71 year old man of how he lives with a 54 year old woman. And there's a one year old on the highchair. It works for me. But somebody he made that call with a different way of measuring 71541

Leray Heyne  04:35

I know you got them all confused? 

Brad Dacus  04:38

Yeah. Probably. Probably. 

Leray Heyne  04:40

So I want to also since we're at the National Religious Broadcasters convention, you've had me on your TV show. And yes, you are on radio now. You're on TV now. And I want to talk about how is the power of media help you and the Pacific Justice Institute fulfill your mission and your and your purpose? 

Brad Dacus  05:02

Yeah. When I first started Pacific Justice Institute or should I say when God started? Yeah, he just as to I was scared stiff. So I had a number of requirements free office space free computer system. These are just some police I put out there for the Lord to take care of. He took care of them. But one of them of these requirements was that I remained on two radio stations, they interviewed me at the time for free once a week, one in Northern California, one in Southern. And the reason was simple. If people didn't know we were there, there was no purpose for us to exist. So these, this appears on radio was critical for us to be able to do what God's called us to do. So people know that we're out there to help them. Wow, well, fast forward by God's grace, and in different individuals stepping in like Pastor Chuck Smith saying, hey, we need to get this out there. Let's push this out on our radio stations, and then others, we now have our radio half hour radio show The Dacus Report over 800 radio outlets, our commentary, the legal edge on over 1000 radio outlets, there's about a 50% overlap between the two. Then we have Brad Dacus, live on hischannel.com. And then we also have a new show called faith and law that we're syndicating out, it's already on 25 networks. And after this conference, I know it's going to be on more while it's a half hour TV show streaming on different networks. So it's it with the expansion, and then the continued expansion with radio and television. We have more and more and more people contacting us all across the country. So much so that we have grown with the media, to where the media has carried us so that now like I said earlier, we have more offices on the East Coast, West Coast, just responding to people's requests for help. And that's a direct response to media choosing to be the lifeline to those communities to allow us to do our work in our ministry. Needless to say media has been critical for us to get out our messaging, and to be able to serve those people we want to help. 

Leray Heyne  07:04

That is awesome. And so I hope you business owners that were asking to become corporate pregnant corporate covenant partners with Jesus Christ CEOs TV telling the world what Jesus is doing the business, media will help us amplify and spread that message in ways you can't even imagine is Brad is mentioned. So you've been walking with me for a long time. In fact, I heard a story about you the other day, I heard the story. I heard from one of our dear friends that you thought that Jesus Christ CEOs was just going to be a flash in the pan. What do you think now that what God has done? 

Brad Dacus  07:39

Yeah, I, I will tell you when I first heard you talk and you had the passion, the energy, the excitement, I had my doubts. I'll be honest with you, I there was some other business groups out there and and I didn't get the concept of what you were doing. And now I do have the concept. Yes. In fact, I'm a part of the cons you have you are aware, a partner, a man who is partner with your ministry have, and we will do anything we can to help your ministry. But it has been exciting to see how, number one you stepped out in faith. Number two, you didn't just have faith, you also had diligence and perseverance to put your heart into it, but your mind into it and the word of God and to put together an organizational structure. And then you are willing to persevere to communicate that right. And as you communicated that just within the realm that God gave you. It flourished. I am convinced we ran I haven't said this off the screen. It's not like our practice. I told you you're you're not expecting man in here. Yes. But I will tell you, I expect that with media, that that messaging that caused you to grow and expand so quickly, is going to be exponential as the media expansion will allow this to go out exponentially as well. That sort of thus saith the LORD, that's just observing what we've already seen happened and what God's already done. And how I expect this kit to replicate just as the work of Pacific Justice is to replicate it with a great expansion of media being the lifeline to so many people needing help. 

Leray Heyne  09:25

Yeah, well, thank you. Thank you, you know, Brett sitting over there, and you got to meet him last year at our consecration service. And we've been we've been exploring and learning and figuring out what God was leading us to and now you're in sitting in our virtual reality set that we will have this in studios. What do you think about this?

Brad Dacus  09:46

There's nothing like this and all of the entire national just broadcasters convention, yeah. Nothing like this. This is at the cutting edge. And the cutting edge of not just looking nice, right? It's the cutting edge of communicating and conveying your messaging. Yeah. And I think it's going to open up incredible doors for you and your ministry. And I'm very excited about it. I have to admit, I have to confess. I was I wasn't a sin. When I saw this. I was thinking I was starting to fight back coveting an enemy. Okay, you probably know, but that's not right. That's not right. Yeah. Because I, I've never seen any like this. We do media. I have studios. I have nothing like this. Yeah. And I'm excited to see something like this. And this technology, this cutting edge media technology, being used for good and for the Kingdom. Yeah, much less by a ministry that I am 100% behind. And I'm excited to see what God's gonna do on you. 

Leray Heyne  10:43

Thank you. Well, would you? I would like you, because God has blessed you in, in your ministries bless you in your media. Would you pray a blessing over our media? 

Brad Dacus  10:53

Yes, I'd be happy to do it right now. Right now. Thank you, Father, we we just thank you and praise you for what you've already done. Lord God for this awesome ministry. And Father, we pray there for you to go before us. If you don't go before us. It's all in vain. And yes, Father, we pray for you to use this technology, Lord God in the way that's the most efficient, we pray for you to bless it. And to bless the impact where we're not praying for ministry, Lord God, yes, we're praying for your kingdom to flourish in businesses as simply as business owners across America. So for God to become a part of what you want them to do, a part of the ministry that you call them to, to have and to be, we thank you. We praise you for what you're going to do. And we give you Lord God, all the glory of all the praise in Jesus name. Amen. 

Leray Heyne  11:41

Amen. And thank you. I know you're super busy and high demand here. So thanks for taking some time to come here and help us launch this new technology. 

Brad Dacus  11:49

It is a privilege and an honor. God bless you. 

Leray Heyne  11:51

God bless you, too. 

Brad Dacus  11:52

Thank you. 

Leray Heyne  11:52

Thank you.