The wedding of Mr. xx and Miss xx
Who gave the bride a wedding?
Let's pray together.
God who created everything in the universe, we are here today to make Tao Jin and Zhao Hui swear before you according to your expectations. Lord, please be a witness among us and lead them in their future family life. Lord, we admit that you arranged for them to meet and get married, because there was no accident in you. Everything goes according to your wishes. So, we are here to pray to you, let them grow old together. We pray in the name of your beloved son Jesus. Amen.
Please sing the poem How Big Is Your Faith (the lyrics are printed on the program).
Now we will invite the bride's father, Brother Zhao Xuepu, to read the Bible. Scripture is printed on the program.
Today we are gathered together to attend the wedding of Tao Jin and Zhao Hui. I want to say a few words of encouragement first.
encouraging words
Marriage is a great event in life. Since ancient times, both men and women have been married. In ancient ceremonies in China, the bride was carried into a sedan chair. At the man's house, the bride came down and the couple came to the altar together. The master of ceremonies shouted, "One worships heaven and earth, the other worships the high hall, and the husband and wife pay homage and send them to the bridal chamber. 」
This ancient gift can only be seen in movies now. Many couples in modern times get married as long as they put a few tables in the hotel, find a few witnesses and sign the marriage certificate.
I used to study law. According to the laws of Taiwan Province Province, as long as there are two witnesses and a public ceremony, you can get married. What is a public ceremony? Due to the frequent bombing of Japanese planes during the Anti-Japanese War, couples are often unable to get married because of air strikes at weddings. So the court stipulated that as long as the husband and wife nodded to each other in front of two witnesses, there would be a ceremony. Chinese mainland's marriage, the most important request for government approval for registration. I heard that many people have to go through a period of registration before they can get married. You may not be able to live together immediately after marriage. Marriage is difficult, and both husband and wife cherish the hard-won marriage. However, it is easy for us to get married in America. As long as the bride and groom are mature in love and ready to get married, just like Tao Jin Zhao Hui, they will get married in two or three weeks.
Just because marriage is too easy, many young people have developed two extremes. Some people use economic base as the representative of grand wedding. Therefore, some people must buy a house, save some money, have an identity and have a stable job before considering getting married.
Others go to the other extreme. They think that since marriage is so casual, it is enough for us to promise each other for a lifetime. Why do you need any ceremony? These two wrong ideas have caused many unhappy couples. They will never feel safe, and couples may break up at any time because of disagreement.
Why are you getting married? No matter what nationality, getting married means taking an oath before God. If you swear before God not to get married, then marriage is not marriage. In ancient China, the first ceremony was to worship heaven and earth, with the purpose of showing the new people's respect and gratitude to God.
The Bible saw this truth a long time ago. So the Bible Genesis says: The Lord God says that it is not good for that man to live alone, so I will make him a spouse and help him. Just make a woman out of the ribs taken from a man and lead him to a man. So people leave their parents and join their wives, and they become one. Since marriage must be intervened by God, if a married person doesn't believe in God, it is equivalent to tearing down the foundation of the family. Because the foundation of marriage is the belief in God. Many people here today are married. Prove that you believe in God. Because you want God's witness.
The second important attitude of marriage is to know your relationship with your parents. The Bible says that, therefore, a man should leave his parents and marry his wife, and the two will become one. China's gift is to thank his parents. It means thanking parents for their kindness. From now on, the two should put family first. Mentally, they want to leave their parents, and now the relationship between parents and newcomers is different from before. Both parents and newlyweds should readjust to this new relationship. Children are no longer children, but adults. Parent-child relationship is a new type of relationship in the future. Not only is it not a relationship of nurturing and teaching, but the new couple will also have the responsibility to support and raise their parents in the future. Both parents should recognize the relationship between the new family and respect many decisions of the new family to stand on its own feet. Only in this way can the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law be maintained. It will lay a good foundation for the couple to support and filial their parents in the future, and also ensure the harmony between husband and wife. For newlyweds, the Bible teaches them to blend in. Marriage is not just a wedding. Marriage is not like a fairy tale: "the prince married the princess and lived happily ever after." A truly successful family should not only take an oath before God, but also try to get to know each other. If you want to live a happy life, you must live a harmonious life according to God's teaching. So God built churches for us in the world. In the church, people are taught to practice God's teaching.
Believe it or not, your marriage is an oath before God. The foundation has been laid. If you want a happy family, you must always live according to God's word. Only in this way can we really build a happy family on the basis. However, if people don't know what God means, how can they live according to God's word? So there are many cherished families. In America, millions of wives are beaten. Millions of children are abused at home. In these people's homes, right and wrong, right and wrong depends on whose fist is big. In fact, the truth is not easy to see at home. What is truth? Who can arbitrate when husband and wife get along? China said that it is difficult for an upright official to break housework. So God has arranged the Bible for us. Fairness, humanity and justice recorded in the Bible are respected by the world until today. Therefore, I encourage these two newcomers to go to church more often in the future. Build your home on a solid foundation.
I was valued by you and presided over your wedding. My responsibility is not limited to this wedding. No matter what problems you have in the future, I am willing to take responsibility for you. I hope you will be together forever. If the marriage is likely to break up, please discuss with me before making any major decisions. Give God a chance to intervene. You will be happy to find that God has achieved great things among you and brought family harmony. Help you live a happy life.
The poetry class of the poetry-donating church will present a poem to the couple.
Now it's time for the new couple to swear to each other for life before God. Please bring the new person on stage.
oath
Now let's take the oath of marriage before God. I want to ask two people the same question, a long question. Please listen before you answer:
Mr. xxx, are you willing to marry xx, live with him according to the teaching of the Bible, be one with her before God, love her, comfort her, respect her and protect him as yourself? Whether she is sick or healthy, whether she is rich or poor, she will always be loyal to her until her death.
Miss XXX, would you like to marry Mr XX, live with him according to the teaching of the Bible, be one with him before God, love him, comfort him, respect him and protect him as yourself? Whether he is sick or healthy, whether he is rich or poor, he will always be loyal to him until his death?
Exchange ring
Now we need to exchange rings as wedding tokens.
The ring is gold, which means you have to give your most precious love to each other, like the most precious gift.
Gold never rusts and never fades, which means that your love will last forever. It is round, which means there is no reservation, no beginning and no end. Never broken.
Mr. XX, please repeat after me sentence by sentence:
This is my wedding token for you. I want to marry you, love you and protect you. No matter rich or poor, no matter the environment is good or bad, no matter I am sick or healthy, I am your faithful husband.
Miss XX, please repeat after me sentence by sentence:
This is my wedding token for you. I want to marry you, love you and protect you. No matter rich or poor, no matter the environment is good or bad, no matter I am sick or healthy, I am your faithful wife.
Please both repeat after me:
Wherever you go, I will go there. You stay there, and I will stay there. Your country is my country, and your god is my god.
By the power vested in us by the Bible, I pronounce you husband and wife. God is United, don't let anyone separate.
Unveiled
Thank your parents: Now newlyweds will present flowers to their parents to express their gratitude. From now on, you are no longer children raised by your parents, but a new family that supports your parents.
Light candles: The newlyweds will light candles, which means that the two of them will unite as one. It will no longer be two people, but one person. You can't separate you from me from now on. Both people should be of one mind and one mind. Whether it is raising children, working or participating in social activities, we must first communicate fully at home, regardless of you and me at home and abroad. Therefore, after lighting the concentric candles, you should blow out your own candles, indicating that you will no longer have yourself and put family first.
Now please pray to God together.
pray
Lord! Check and keep the agreement we made before you today. You know what we want. May the love of the Father, the protection of the Lord Jesus and the touch of the Holy Spirit be with you forever, especially with the new couple, forever. Amen.