Personal Comments

You have been called by God for eternal life with Him in His glory.  For many are called but few are chosen (Matt 22:14). If you do not know Jesus as your personal Savior or Lord of every aspect of your life, I encourage you to invite Jesus to make himself known to you.  If you have not yet come to the end of yourself (Separated, Independent and Nowhere) I pray Jesus will reveal himself to you.  We all give ourselves over to something or someone and I pray you will give yourself to Jesus who is faithful to reveal himself and to make you his own.
What is hopeful is that this document inspires the reader into a deeper and fuller life with our triune God. In addition, that the enclosed will be helpful to counter pluralism and liberal and revisionist theology in the household of God and not to gloss over the disruptive force in humanity where hearts are being broken, human life is being ruined and overclouded with the realities of a fundamental dislocation from God. 
The scripture references are not exhaustive nor meant to be stand-alone. They are intended to encourage the reader to explore and discover the fullness of God’s mercy and compassion and for kingdom of heaven living — the realization of God’s presence in you — and for transforming and equipping you for your life witness in Him.
You have been justified by grace through Jesus Christ and God’s primal perfect will for you is your complete sanctification — being one with Him.  The daily use of this brief document will help you on that path.
The language used in the Daily Relational Maintenance is meant to be clear, direct and personal about ourselves and our inheritance of growing into right relationship with our triune God.
The Bluewater Confession is an adaption of the Apostle’s Creed reflecting the accusative case of the original Koine Greek and Classical Latin documents as revealed in contemporary Biblical Scholarship where (into), (eis, Grk & in, Lat.), suggests spatial movement with regards to faith or non-movement in personal relationship when we consider faith into something or someone other than God (Early Christian Creeds, 91; abridged TDNT, 213).  Giving over to the study of God’s inspired Word and replacing Church with Household are the other changes.
The contemporary Biblical Scholarship sources are from Kittel G., Friedrich G., Trans. Bromiley G., ‘Abridged Theological Dictionary Of The New Testament’ Grand Rapids, Mich. Eerdmans, c2000, p.213; ‘Hartman L Into The Name Of The Lord Jesus Baptism in the Early Church’ Edinburgh: T&T Clark, c1997 (1992); D. N. Freedman (Ed.), ‘The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary’ (Vol. 1, pp. 583–594). New York: Doubleday; as well as Dunn, J.D.G., ‘The Theology of Paul The Apostle’ Grand Rapids, Mich. Eerdmans, c1998, p.330, Schüssler Fiorenza, E. ‘Revelation Vision of a Just World’ Augsburg Fortress, 1991 p.p.2-4 and Kelly, J.N.D., ‘Early Christian Creeds’ Bodmin, Cornwall: MPG Books Ltd, Continuum edition 2006, c1950 p.91.

May you always know the joy, love and peace of being into Christ.

Rev. Brian Laidler, MDiv, President

The Lord’s Prayer

(Matthew 6:9-13)
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. ¹⁰Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. ¹¹Give us this day our daily bread, ¹²and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. ¹³And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.

1 Peter 2: ¹Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander. ²Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation—³if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. ⁴Come to him, a living stone, though rejected by mortals yet chosen and precious in God’s sight, and ⁵like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 

Galatians 5:17-26 ¹⁷For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. ¹⁸ But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. ¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, ²¹ envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. ²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. ²⁴ And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. ²⁵ If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. ²⁶Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

1 John 1:8-10 ⁸ If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. ⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ¹⁰ If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Relational Maintenance

I confess to you God Almighty, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit that I have sinned against you only in thought, word and deed out of the darkness of my own soul — my right to self, self-pity, self-conceit, consideration for my progress and my ways of looking at things — through my suspicion of your abilities, your loving kindness and righteous justice — and through my carnal corrupt affections — the pride and vanity of my spirit.
Almighty God and Father, through the blood your Son shed on His Cross for the world, I surrender to Your mercy and Your leading of me into the repentance and freedom of the light of Your renewal, for I delight in Your presence within me. Thank You for forgiving me of my sin and transforming me from the darkness within and delivering me from the evil without. By Your Holy Spirit and through Your living Word affirm and strengthen me into the person and character of Christ — my living stone and firm foundation — and into life everlasting — making me dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus: Through Your Son my Saviour, Jesus Christ the Lord.   Amen.

The Bluewater Confession

Scriptural Foundation

Relational Maintenance
Psalm 139:1-24 — “The Inescapable God”
Psalm 51:1-19 — conviction of sin & repentance
Ezekiel 28.12-19 — sin is self-realization — I am my own god
Isaiah 14:12-14 — rebellion against God
Genesis 3:1-7 — unordained relationship = deception, sin & death
John 8:44 — author of sin a murderer and a liar
2 Corinthians 4:4 — god of this world blinds minds of unbelievers
Romans 6:23 — death through sin — eternal life in Christ
John 8:34-36 — slavery to sin — freedom from sin through Christ
Romans 5:1-21 — faith — grace — hope — justification — eternal life
Ephesians 6:12 — our enemies = spiritual forces not flesh & blood
Revelation 12:10 — the accuser, the devil, is thrown down
Philippians 3:18-21 — living as enemies of the cross of Christ
Matthew 16:22-23 — having our minds on human things
Luke 16:15 — prized by humans an abomination in sight of God
Mark 4:19 — the cares of this world choke the Word in us
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 — your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit
2 Corinthians 7:1 — call to cleanse ourselves from defilement
John 17:1-26 — Jesus intercedes for those who believe his Word is truth
1 Tim. 1:12-17— grace overflowing with mercy & love of Christ
John 14:15 — keep God’s commandments out of love for Him
Colossians 3:1-17 — life of the redeemed
1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 — faithfulness of Christ to sanctify you