Challenge
From God's Holy
Book we read these words: From the beginning of the
creation God made them male and female. And the Lord God
said, "It isn't good for man to be alone; I will make a
companion for him, a helper suitable to his needs. This
explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is
joined to his wife in such a way that the two become one
spirit. You wives must submit to your husbands' leadership
in the same way you submit to the Lord. For a husband is
in charge of his wife in the same way Christ is in charge
of His body the church. (He gave his life to take care of
it and be its Savior!) So you wives must willingly obey
your husbands in everything, just as the church obeys
Christ.
Husbands, love
your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave
Himself for it. So ought men to love their wives as their
own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. So
again I say, a man must love his wife as a part of
himself; and the wife must see to it that she deeply
respects her husband reverencing, praising and honoring
him.
You, ___________,
(bride) and you, ___________ (groom), have come to me
signifying your desire to be formally united in marriage.
Wedding Vows
(Please join your
right hands.)
Pastor --
___________, in taking the woman whom you hold by the
right hand to be your lawful and wedded wife, I require
you to promise to love and cherish her, to honor and
sustain her, in sickness and in health, in poverty as in
wealth, in bad that may darken your days, in the good that
may lighten your ways, and to be true to her in all things
until death alone shall part you. Do you so promise?
Groom -- I do.
Pastor --
___________, taking the man who holds you by the right
hand to be your lawful and wedded husband, I require you
to promise to love and cherish him, to honor and sustain
him, in sickness and in health, in poverty as in wealth,
in the bad that may darken your days, in the good that may
lighten your ways, and to be true to him in all things
until death alone shall part you. Do you so promise?
Bride -- I do.
Pastor -- Again
from God's Word. A new commandment I give unto you, that
you also love one another. Love is very patient and kind,
never jealous or envious, never boastful or proud, never
haughty or selfish or rude. Love does not demand its own
way. It is not irritable or touchy. It does not hold
grudges and will hardly even notice when others do it
wrong. It is never glad about injustice, but rejoices
whenever truth wins out. If you love someone you will be
loyal to him no matter what the cost. You will always
believe in him, always expect the best of him, and always
stand your ground in defending him. Love never fails, for
love is of God. And now abides faith, hope, love, these
three, but the greatest of these is love.
Ring Vows
Pastor to Groom --
What pledge do you give of the sincerity of your vows?
Groom -- A ring.
Pastor to Bride --
___________, do you accept this ring as a pledge of the
sincerity of his vows?
Bride -- I do.
Pastor to Groom --
THIS RING I THEE GIVE...IN TOKEN AND PLEDGE..OF MY
CONSTANT FAITH AND ABIDING LOVE.
Pastor to Bride --
___________ what pledge do you give of the sincerity of
your vows?
Bride -- A ring.
Pastor to Groom --
___________ do you accept this ring as a pledge of the
sincerity of her vows?
Groom -- I do.
Pastor to Bride --
THIS RING I THEE GIVE..IN TOKEN AND PLEDGE..OF MY CONSTANT
FAITH..AND ABIDING LOVE.
Pastor -- And may
these rings given, be the outward and visible sign of an
inward and spiritual bond which unites your two hearts in
love that has no end.
Light Memory Candle.
Kneel, prayer, solo
Pronouncement
Pastor -- Having
pledged your faith in, and love to each other, and having
sealed your solemn marital vows by giving and receiving
the rings, acting in the authority vested in me by the
laws of this state, and looking to heaven for divine
sanction, I pronounce you husband and wife in the presence
of God and these assembled witnesses. What God has joined
together, let not man put asunder.
And now may the
God of peace prosper and bless your new relationship, and
may the grace of Jesus Christ abound unto you now and
forevermore.
You may kiss the
Bride.
Introduction
And now it is my
happy privilege to congratulate and introduce to you Mr. &
Mrs. ___________
Solo
Recessional
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