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The Ceremony |
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Giving of The Bride
To Parents: Who gives this bride in marriage?
Response (Father): Her Mother and I do.
To Groom: Take your bride and step forward please.
To Congregation: I ask that the congregation remain standing as we go before the Lord in prayer.
"Our most gracious heavenly Father, we thank You for all the privileges of being in the Body of Christ. We have come together to watch the miracle of Your Love and the power of Your Spirit work in the lives of these two people. We give You the praise, the honor and the glory for the power of the Holy Spirit in our lives to bring us into a place of union with the Father, union with the son, union with the Holy spirit, and union with one another. We thank You for it, in Jesus' mighty Name. Amen."
To congregation: You may be seated. |
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Charge to the Bride and Groom
We your friends and family gather on this wedding day to bless and celebrate with you the Holy Covenant that will make you husband and wife. In part it is your similarities that have drawn you together... a shared faith, similar interests, similar goals. In part, it is your differences that have attracted you to each other. You inspire one another because what one seems to lack, the other seems to possess...where one of you seems weak, the other seems strong, when one seems reticent, the other seems confident. Today you stand at this alter because of what you do and do not possess... As I read scriptures from the fifth chapter of the book of Ephesians, I want you both to pay very close attention to the words stated here. These are the words, from God's Word, that the Holy Spirit will honor as we stand on them in faith. The world has the idea that marriage is simply a legal contract. It is a legal contract (we don't make light of that); but at the same time, it is a spiritual contract. When the words of faith are spoken according to the word of God between two born-again believers, the power of God goes into operation. There is an actual miracle that takes place when the faith of these two people is released in God's power, God honors their faith and brings them into union together. With these thoughts in mind, listen very carefully to these words:
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so [let] the wives [be] to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. |
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