Jessica Brodie
Contributing Writer
2021
20 May
It’s one of those phrases many people cringe to hear, for it sounds almost like it belongs in some scary movie or vampire book: “washed in the blood.” Yet it’s a saying many Christians utter, even claiming as their own. For the blood referred to is the sacrificial blood of Christ, the salvation of the cross, and the sacrifice Jesus made when He gave His life over so that we who believe may live. But what does it mean to be “washed in the blood”? And what does being washed in the blood have to do with Christianity?