Blog Name:	Water Is Thicker Than Blood: How Word and Sacrament Reshape Our Ident
Url:	http://wateristhickerthanblood.wordpress.com/
Language:	English
Topics:	Reformed Theology, Sacraments, Confessionalism
Description:	The title of the blog “Water is Thicker Than Blood” is meant to show the objectivity of Baptism and the Lord’ Supper. These Sacraments, according to the preaching of the Gospel aright, redefine who we are, uniting us to Christ and His redemption by faith alone. These things have the priority in the Christian life and yet many times they are subverted by things that are not necessarily bad, like one’s blood relations. And yet, when these things have the priority, they become a false means by which Christ is communicated and received. The name of the blog is not meant to be comical or retro but is theologically purposeful and meant to show the importance of one’s Baptism in Christ and entrance into His Church catholic. The waters of baptism are indeed stronger than the blood of ethnicity or race. The sole purpose of such a distinction may be counter-intuitive and anti-cultural, which may in fact be true. I hope it will cause my readers, or those who happen to make their way across the blogosphere to my new outpost, to reconsider the church’s importance and necessity for piety and practice. The Gospel witness in Baptism is objectively a sign to us of redemption applied and Christ drawing us to Himself by the gift of Faith. The Gospel is what enlivens and empowers, recreating where there was no life. For this reason, it is important to have a thoroughly Reformed, confessional view of the Church, her ordinances and sacraments in order not to be led astray by every wind of doctrine and into the subjective chasm that not inculcates the modern Evangelical church and ‘post-modern’ society. I hope this blog will not add to the Narcissistic noise that permeates the internet but point all to Christ and the Gospel in which we see Him presently clothed.
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