Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Blood is thicker than water, Jesus' love is thicker than blood!



http://nextgenerasianchurch.com/2006/12/07/sons-and-daughters-to-be-called-brothers-and-sisters/

Furthermore, the ethnic church can contribute to this and should. In Minnesota, where a great number of Korean adoptees are, this ministry has the tagline: “Blood is thicker than water; Jesus’ love is thicker than blood!” That is so beautiful. I pray that many of our churches can do this type of work in empowering adoptees to have a sense that we love them, that they have a better understanding of being adopted as sons and daughters through Christ than many of us, and that Christ reigns from the East to the West. They should not lose the best of what their Asian heritage has to offer and nor should our voices be absent in the formation of who they are as a person and a believer.

Lastly, to call Asian American Christians out on the carpet, I challenge us to adopt children, both those who look like us and do not look like us, because we have been blessed. In many respects, Asian American are the wealthiest, best educated, and in many segments, some of the most churched demographic in America. How is that adoption is sung about by Steven Curtis Chapman and not by us? How is that we as Christians do not rush to rescue them? Do we not consider them brothers and sisters?

Blood is thicker than water, Jesus' love is thicker than blood!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I read Richard Gaffin the other day, he said that the water is thicker then blood. The water of baptism is thicker than blood. The church is make up of people from nations but one baptism into the body of christ, no longer Jews and Gentile distinction anymore.

Anonymous said...

I read Richard Gaffin the other day, he said that the water is thicker then blood. The water of baptism is thicker than blood. The church is make up of people from nations but one baptism into the body of christ, no longer Jews and Gentile distinction anymore.