If You're Going to Have a Wedding
If you're going to have a wedding or planning one in the near future, please read the following article from Weekend Encounter.....
I have read how, years ago, when Johnny Carson was the host of The Tonight Show, he interviewed an eight-year-old boy. The young man was asked to appear because he had rescued two friends in a coal mine outside his hometown in West Virginia. As Johnny
questioned the boy, it became apparent to him and the audience that the young man was a Christian. So Johnny asked him if he attended Sunday school. When the boy
said he did(,) Johnny inquired, "What are you learning in Sunday school?"
"Last week," came his reply, "our lesson was about when Jesus went to a wedding and turned water into wine." The audience roared, but Johnny tried to keep a straight face. Then he said, "And what did you learn from that story?"
The boy squirmed in his chair. It was apparent he hadn't thought about this. But then he lifted up his face and said, "If you're going to have a wedding,make sure you invite Jesus!"
Source: Preaching Now
I have read how, years ago, when Johnny Carson was the host of The Tonight Show, he interviewed an eight-year-old boy. The young man was asked to appear because he had rescued two friends in a coal mine outside his hometown in West Virginia. As Johnny
questioned the boy, it became apparent to him and the audience that the young man was a Christian. So Johnny asked him if he attended Sunday school. When the boy
said he did(,) Johnny inquired, "What are you learning in Sunday school?"
"Last week," came his reply, "our lesson was about when Jesus went to a wedding and turned water into wine." The audience roared, but Johnny tried to keep a straight face. Then he said, "And what did you learn from that story?"
The boy squirmed in his chair. It was apparent he hadn't thought about this. But then he lifted up his face and said, "If you're going to have a wedding,make sure you invite Jesus!"
Source: Preaching Now
posted by buzybee at
Friday, September 21, 2007
6 Comments:
One thing I find interesting (or disturbing) is the number of poorer people, who forego a religious wedding in favour of a civil marriage because they can't afford a religious wedding and claim that when they have more money, they'll get married by Church.
They are missing the whole point, a union which is not blessed by God is already starting off on the wrong foot.
Of course, this also means I do not recognize civil unions aa a marriage (regardless of the name given to it by the state).
And, if you are like me, you know that an oath sworn before God is not to be broken (I don’t believe in divorce - at least not religious divorce, though I accept that civil divorce may be necessary to settle some property and ownership issues).
You know what, a search on the word "wedding" brought me to some interesting facts about it at http://www.answers.com/topic/wedding. It says:
Before white dresses became virtually universal, colour was important. Green was shunned as unlucky; blue was favoured—except, according to Blakeborough, in 19th-century Yorkshire, where it too was unlucky. A well-known rhyme ran:
Married in green, ashamed to be seen
Married in grey, will go far away
Married in red, wish yourself dead
Married in blue, always be true
Married in yellow, ashamed of your fellow
Married in black, wish yourself back
Married in pink, of you he'll think
Married in white, sure to go right.
:D
Ok, let's go back to whether to have a wedding ceremony or just a marriage registration. I do agree that a wedding ceremony is necessary (other than the registration) as it is a public declaration that the couple belongs only to each other, and all hands and eyes should be off them. ;)
For couples who don't go through that public declaration, like what you said, they are on the wrong footing, preparing them for divorce soon.
But the most important thing to do is to make sure that Jesus is the master of ceremony there, however simple the wedding may be. Only then can miracles happen. :)
While the "objective" view of marriage is that is nothing more than a social contract between individuals, typically engaged in for social, economic or strategic purposes, I don't see it that way. A religious marriage is a covenant (so yeah, it is a contract) between two people entered into in the presence of God - and that is a marriage. Any other social union contract is not for me a marriage.
I recognize that civil authorities may demand a civil union (in Canada, religious unions are automatically recognized by the state. To the best of my knowledge, this is not the case in most countries). However, I have objection to the use of the word marriage for non-religious unions - since it implies that non-religious unions are equivalent to religious ones.
Well, these days, many may not follow any religious nor civil union. They follow the law of the flesh. :(
That is one thing I am pretty sure is not a modern phenomena.
People profess one ideal and live another. Of course, it does not help that in the struggle for equality, women have adopted the abuses of men instead of insisting that men live to higher standards.
erm... i don't think it's due to "the struggle for equality" nor "women have adopted the abuses of men". It's bcos more and more men and women are indulging in their present enjoyments than sparing a thought for what's more eternal.
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