Blood 101
This liquid part of blood carries nutrients, hormones, and waste.
What is plasma?
This muscular organ beats around 100,000 times each day without ever asking for a break.
What is the heart?
According to Leviticus 17:11, “The life of the flesh is in the _____.”
What is blood?
True or False: Blood is actually considered an organ.
What is False? (It is a tissue.)
Blood often symbolizes this gift from God that every living person depends on.
What is life?
These cells are shaped like tiny donuts without holes and can travel through over 60,000 miles of blood vessels carrying oxygen.
What are red blood cells.
These blood vessels have thick muscular walls because they carry blood away from the heart under high pressure.
What are arteries?
During the Last Supper, Jesus said this drink represented His blood.
What is wine/grape juice?
An average adult has about this many pints of blood flowing through their body right now.
What is 8–10 pints?
Christians participate in this special service to remember Christ’s sacrifice and blood.
What is Communion/The Lord’s Supper?
If your body suddenly stopped making these tiny cell fragments, even a paper cut could become dangerous.
What are platelets?
These vessels contain tiny valves that help keep blood from flowing backward, especially in your legs.
What are veins?
Israelites placed blood on their doorposts during this Old Testament event so death would “pass over” them.
What is Passover?
This blood type is called the “universal recipient” because it can receive blood from all other types.
What is AB positive?
Revelation says believers overcome “by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their _____.”
What is testimony?
This iron-rich protein gives blood its red color and grabs oxygen in the lungs like a delivery worker picking up packages.
What is hemoglobin?
This side of the heart works hardest because it pumps oxygen-rich blood through the entire body.
What is the left side?
According to the New Testament, believers are spiritually cleansed by the blood of this person.
Who is Jesus Christ?
Without enough of this mineral, a person may feel tired because their body struggles to make healthy red blood cells.
What is iron?
In the sanctuary service, blood was sprinkled as a symbol of this spiritual process.
What is atonement/forgiveness of sin?
A person with this blood type can donate to almost anyone because their red blood cells lack A, B, and Rh antigens.
What is O negative?
During exercise, your heart beats faster because your muscles demand more of this life-sustaining gas.
What is oxygen?
When Jesus’ side was pierced on the cross, these two substances flowed out according to John 19.
What are blood and water?
Your blood completes this amazing job in less than one minute: traveling from your heart, throughout your body, and back again.
What is circulation?
Jesus is called “the Lamb of God” because His blood represents the ultimate this.
What is sacrifice/redemption?