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Does anyone know of any good websites, books or other resources on "scripts" (for lack of a better word) for Christian weddings? We've got a number of Scripture passages in mind, but I'm trying to help them come up with a "big picture" approach, and we're not having much luck. He and his bride-to-be were actually married 30 years ago, got divorced after about three years, and now they've come back together. They'd like to emphasize the "forever" aspect of their newly rekindled relationship. This is the first wedding I'll be performing, so I'm open to any suggestions anyone may have.

2006-08-13 12:53:22 · 6 answers · asked by Pastor Chad from JesusFreak.com 6 in Family & Relationships Weddings

6 answers

Good Luck.

2006-08-13 15:25:02 · answer #1 · answered by treday25 5 · 0 2

I realize you aren't Catholic and I am not suggesting you should use a Catholic ceremony, but the book "The Rites, Vol I" has the outline of the ceremony, with and without the Catholic mass. Maybe it will give you a starting point for creating your own. Or find out what ceremony is used by the justice of the peace in a civil service.

2006-08-14 00:46:40 · answer #2 · answered by Church Music Girl 6 · 0 0

This is from a Mercedes Lackey book and it's the best advice for a marriage I've ever heard.

This bond, this joining, is not meant to be a fetter. A joining is a partnership, not two people becoming one. Two minds cannot fuse, two souls cannot merge, two hearts cannot keep to the same time. If two are foolish enough to try this, one must overwhelm the other, and that is not love, nor is it compassion, nor responsibility. You are two who choose to walk the same path, to bridge the differences between you with love. You must remember and respect those differences and learn to understand them, for they are part of what made you come to love in the first place. Love is patient, love is willing to compromise—love is willing to admit it is wrong. There will be hard times; you must face them as bound warriors do, side by side, not using the weapon of your knowledge to tear at each other. There will be sadness as well as joy, and must support one another through the grief and sorrow. There will be pain—but pain shared is pain halved, as joy shared is joy doubled, and you each must sacrifice your own comfort to share the pain of the other. And yet, you must do all this and manage to keep each other from wrong actions, for a joining means that you also pledge to help one another at all times. You must lead each other by example. Guide and be willing to be guided. Being joined does not mean that you accept what is truly wrong, being joined means that you must strive that you both remain in the light and the right. You must not pledge yourselves thinking that there will be no strife between you. That is fantasy, for you are two and not one, and there will inevitably come conflict that it will be up to you to resolve. You must not pledge yourselves thinking that all will be well from this moment on. That is a dream, and dreamers must eventually wake. You must come to this joining fully ready, fully committed, and fully respectful of each other.

2006-08-14 02:56:45 · answer #3 · answered by maigen_obx 7 · 0 0

talk with other ministers especially ones who have performed weddings look in the glossary part of the bible under marriage keep checking on the Internet and asking your uncle and his bride to be for their opinion God will work it out for you, keep praying for him to open your eyes and give you the words he will bless you and be thankful and praise him.

2006-08-13 20:05:25 · answer #4 · answered by spagetti7 3 · 1 0

In revelations, it goes on about the emphasis of forever, until the end of time, and beyond

2006-08-13 21:37:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Look up the word forever in your bible index...There are many verses on it....good luck.

2006-08-13 20:22:31 · answer #6 · answered by faith m 2 · 0 0

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