Organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China must be taken from a living donor (kidneys must be transplanted within 24–48 hours; livers within 12 hours, and hearts within 8 hours). Kirk C. Allison, Associate Director of the Program in Human Rights and Medicine at the University of Minnesota, wrote that the "short time frame of an on-demand system [as in China] requires a large pool of donors pre-typed for blood group and HLA matching," which is consistent with reports of Falun Gong prisoners having blood and tissue tested in custody. He wrote that China's short organ wait times could not be assured on a “random death” basis,
The Water & the Blood sound that isn't filled with fluffy and cliché-ridden lyrics; as one person put it, 'Dustin's lyrics are like bringing a bear to a fist fight.' He most definitely did that and no doubt can call this album a TKO." At The Christian Manifesto, Lydia Akinola stated that "There's no argument about it; "The Water and the Blood" puts aside conventional notions of corporate worship in favour for a more singular approach to both song-writing and composition." According to Akinola, this meant that Kensrue "crafted one of the year’s most convincing, and convicting, worship projects. While we’re feasting on the music,