03.00. Form for the Solemnisatiion of Marriage
Form for the Solemnisation of Marriage By Rev C Bouwman
INTRODUCTION For so many of us, the Form of the Solemnisation of Marriage has a very unique significance. It is the form that is read out on our wedding day, and contains the questions to which we voiced - maybe with eagerness, maybe with trepidation - those loaded words, “I do”; Since that day, though, we’ve learned in the hard school of life that life’s busyness has moved that Form more than an arm’s length from us.
Others, particularly the young, answer the urges God has created within them by searching for a potential marriage partner. But what should they seek in such a partner? What is marriage really all about? How can they prepare for marriage? As it turns out, the Form for the Solemnisation of Marriage gives golden answers to these questions and so many more.
Yet before we come to that Form itself, I want to spend some more time considering why a post confession course on the Marriage Form is in place. Ought the church not to restrict its teaching to, say, the confessions of the church?
Contents 01. INTRODUCTION (Above) 02.
1. To combat secular influences on marriage
2.It is the consistory’s responsibility to instruct the congregation about God’s ordinance of marriage ARTICLE 67 - Marriage 3.The Marriage Form is the vehicle to Scripture’s instruction concerning marriage 03.
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God’s answer to man’s aloneness: the woman as helper 1. Companion for Each Other 2. The Woman as Helper 3. Order in Creation: the Man First, the Woman Second 4. The First Wedding Song.
5. God’s Principles for Marriage as Taught in Genesis 2:24
Conclusion 07.
God and Abraham
God and Jacob God and the Seventh Commandment 10.
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