Sample wedding Outline - From the Book of Common prayer

 

Processional - Trumpet Volunteer Purcel

Welcome by the Minister: Minister

Hymn

1. Praise, My Soul the King of Heaven;

To His feet thy tribute bring.

Ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven,

Who like thee His praise should sing?

Praise Him! Praise Him!

Praise Him! Praise Him!

Praise the everlasting King

2. Praise Him for His grace and favour

To our fathers in distress;

Praise Him, still the same for ever,

Slow to chide and swift to bless.

Praise Him! Praise Him!

Praise Him! Praise Him!

Glorious in His faithfulness.

3. Father-like, He tends and spares us;

Well our feeble frame He knows;

In His hands He gently bears us,

Rescues us from all our foes.

Praise Him! Praise Him!

Praise Him! Praise Him!

Widely as His mercy flows.

4. Angels in the height, adore Him;

Ye behold Him face to face;

Sun and moon, bow down before Him,

Dwellers all in time and space.

Praise Him! Praise Him!

Praise Him! Praise Him!

Praise with us the God of grace!

Prayer- Minister

Almighty and Everlasting God, to You all hearts are open and all desires known. Direct, sanctify and govern our hearts and bodies in the ways of your laws and in the works of Your commandments; purify our thoughts through Your Holy Spirit, that we may love You with heart and mind and praise You as we ought : through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen

Wedding

Minister

<GROOM>, will you have <BRIDE> to be your wife? Will you live with her in obedience to God's will and purpose? Will you love her, honour her and care for her, in sickness and in health? Will you be faithful to her, and her alone, as long as you both shall live? I will

Minister

<BRIDE>, will you have <GROOM> to be your husband? Will you live with him in obedience to God's will and purpose? Will you love him, honour him and care for him, in sickness and in health? Will you be faithful to him, and him alone, as long as you both shall live? I will

Groom

I, <GROOME>, take you <BRIDE>,

to be my wife,

To have and to hold,

From this day forward,

For better for worse,

For richer for poorer,

In sickness and in health,

To love and to cherish,

As long as we both shall live,

According to the will and purpose of God,

And to this I give you my pledge.

Bride

I, <BRIDE>, take you <GROOM>,

to be my husband,

To have and to hold,

From this day forward,

For better for worse,

For richer for poorer,

In sickness and in health,

To love and to cherish,

As long as we both shall live,

According to the will and purpose of God,

And to this I give you my pledge.

Minister

Bless, O Lord, these rings, given and received as a sign of love and faithfulness. Amen.

Groom

Receive this ring in token of my love and faithfulness

I honour you with my body,

And all my possessions I share with you.

Bride

I receive this ring as a sign of the love and faithfulness between us.

Bride

Receive this ring in token of my love and faithfulness

I honour you with my body,

And all my possessions I share with you.

Groom

I receive this ring as a sign of the love and faithfulness

between us.

Minister

As <GROOM> and <BRIDE> have consented together in Marriage, and have made their pledge to one another before God and this congregation, and have declared it by joining of hands, and by giving and receiving of rings, I declare that they are now husband and wife. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen

Those whom God has joined together, let no man put asunder.

God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, bless, preserve, and keep these your children; may the God of Love, mercy and grace fill your lives to overflowing; that you might be a witness to this generation and generations to come of His perfect Love, Grace and Peace; and that all might believe, praising the living God with life everlasting.

Prayers- Bride and Groom

Hymn

1. No eye has seen

and no ear has heard

and no mind has ever conceived

the glorious things that You have prepared

for every one who has believed:

You brought us near

and You called us your own

and made us joint heirs with Your Son

How high and how wide,

how deep and how long,

how sweet and how strong is Your love:

How lavish Your grace

How faithful Your ways,

how great is Your love, O Lord?

2. Objects of mercy, who should have known wrath,

we're filled with unspeakable joy

riches of wisdom unsearchable wealth

and the wonder of knowing Your voice

You are our treasure and our great

reward our hope and our glorious king.

How high and how wide,

how deep and how long,

how sweet and how strong is Your love:

How lavish Your grace

How faithful Your ways,

how great is Your love, O Lord?

1. My Lord, What Love is this

that pays so dearly,

That I , the guilty one,

may go free

Amazing Love, O what sacrifice

the Son of God, given for me

My debt He pays,

and my death He dies,

that I might live, that I might live.

2. And so they watched Him die,

despised, rejected:

But oh, the blood he shed

flowed for me

Amazing Love, O what sacrifice

the Son of God, given for me

My debt He pays,

and my death He dies,

that I might live, that I might live.

3. And now this love of Christ

shall flow like rivers;

Come wash your guilt away,

Live again!

Amazing Love, O what sacrifice

the Son of God, given for me

My debt He pays,

and my death He dies,

that I might live, that I might live.

Old Testament Reading

Deuteronomy 6:4-18 "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

When the LORD your God brings you into the land he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant then when you eat and are satisfied, be careful that you do not forget the LORD, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. Fear the LORD your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name. Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you; for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God and his anger will burn against you, and he will destroy you from the face of the land. Do not test the LORD your God as you did at Massah. Be sure to keep the commands of the LORD your God and the stipulations and decrees he has given you.

Do what is right and good in the Lord's sight, so that it may go well with you and you may go in and take over the good land that the LORD promised on oath to your forefathers,"

Hymn

1. O the deep, deep love of Jesus!

Vast, unmeasured, boundless, free;

rolling as a mighty ocean

in its fullness over me.

Underneath me, all around me,

is the current of Thy love;

leading onward, leading homeward,

to my glorious rest above.

2. O the deep, deep love of Jesus!

Spread His praise from shore to shore,

how He loveth, ever loveth,

changeth never, nevermore;

how He watches o'er His loved ones;

died to call them all His own;

how for them He intercedeth,

watches over them from the throne.

3. O the deep, deep love of Jesus!

Love of every love the best;

>tis an ocean vast of blessing,

>tis a haven sweet of rest.

O the deep, deep love of Jesus!

>tis a heaven of heavens to me;

and it lifts me up to glory,

for it lifts me up to Thee.

New Testament Reading

1 John 4:7-21 "Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother."

Hymn

1. I give You all the honour

and praise that's due Your name,

for You are the king of Glory,

the creator of all things.

And I worship You,

I give my life to You,

I fall down on my knees

Yes, I worship You,

I give my life to You,

I fall down on my knees.

2. You have broken chains that bound me,

You've set this captive free,

I will lift my voice to praise Your name

for all eternity.

And we worship You,

We give our lives to You,

we fall down on our knees

Yes, we worship You,

we give our lives to You,

we fall down on our knees.

Sermon- A Real Love

Hymn

Be Thou my vision,

O Lord of my Heart;

Naught be all else to me,

save that Thou art.

Thou my best thought,

by day or by night,

waking or sleeping,

Thy presence my light.

Be Thou my wisdom,

Thou my true Word;

I ever with Thee,

Thou with me, Lord;

Though my great Father,

I Thy true son;

Thou in me dwelling,

and I with Thee one.

Be Thou my battle-shield,

sword for the fight,

be Thou my dignity,

Thou my delight.

Thou my soul's shelter,

Thou my high tower:

raise Thou me heavenward,

O Power of my power.

Riches I heed not,

nor man's empty praise,

Thou mine inheritance,

now and always:

Thou and Thou only,

first in my heart,

High King of heaven,

my treasure Thou art.

High King of heaven,

after victory won,

may I reach heaven's joys,

O Bright heaven's Sun!

Heart of my own heart,

whatever befall,

still be my vision,

O ruler of all.

Prayers

Hymn

O Breath of life,

come sweeping through us,

Revive your church with life and power;

O Breath of life, come, cleanse, renew us

And fit Thy church to meet this hour.

O Wind of God,

come bend us, break us

Till humbly we confess our need;

Then, in Thy tenderness

remake us, revive, restore:

for this we plead.

O Breath of love

come breathe within us,

Renewing thought and will and heart;

Come, love of Christ, afresh to win us,

Revive Thy church in every part!

Revive us, Lord; is zeal abating

While harvest fields are vast and white?

Revive us, Lord, the world is waiting,

Equip Thy church to spread the Light.

The Signing of the Register

Bride and groom depart 

Holst - Jupiter

Book of Common Prayer Wedding Vow's

Minister

Groom, will you have Bride to be your wife? Will you live with her in obedience to God's will and purpose? Will you love her, honour her and care for her, in sickness and in health? Will you be faithful to her, and her alone, as long as you both shall live? I will

Minister

Bride, will you have Groom to be your husband? Will you live with him in obedience to God's will and purpose? Will you love him, honour him and care for him, in sickness and in health? Will you be faithful to him, and him alone, as long as you both shall live? I will

Goom

I, <Groom>, take you Bride, to be my wife, 

To have and to hold,

From this day forward,

For better for worse,

For richer for poorer,

In sickness and in health,

To love and to cherish,

As long as we both shall live,

According to the will and purpose of God,

And to this I give you my pledge.

Bride

I, <Bride>, take you Groom,

 to be my husband,

To have and to hold,

From this day forward,

For better for worse,

For richer for poorer,

In sickness and in health,

To love and to cherish,

As long as we both shall live,

According to the will and purpose of God,

And to this I give you my pledge.

Minister

Bless, O Lord, these rings, given and received as a sign of love and faithfulness. Amen.

Groom

Receive this ring in token of my love and faithfulness I honour you with my body, And all my possessions I share with you.

Bride 

I receive this ring as a sign of the love and faithfulness between us.

Bride 

Receive this ring in token of my love and faithfulness I honour you with my body, And all my possessions I share with you.

Groom

I receive this ring as a sign of the love and faithfulness between us.

Minister

As Groom and Bride have consented together in Marriage, and have made their pledge to one another before God and this congregation, and have declared it by joining of hands, and by giving and receiving of rings, I declare that they are now husband and wife. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen

Those whom God has joined together, let no man put asunder.

God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, bless, preserve, and keep these your children; may the God of Love, mercy and grace fill your lives to overflowing; that you might be a witness to this generation and generations to come of His perfect Love, Grace and Peace; and that all might believe, praising the living God with life everlasting.

We have to win that world..... Winston Churchill

This is no time to speak of the hopes of the future, or the broader world which lies beyond our struggles and our victory. We have to win that world for our children. We have to win it by our sacrifices. We have not won it yet. The crisis is upon us....In this strange, terrible world war there is a place for everyone, man and woman, old and young, hale and halt; service in a thousand forms is open. There is no room now for the dilettante, the weakling, for the shirker, or the sluggard. The mine, the factory, the dockyard, the salt sea waves, the fields to till, the home, the hospital, the chair of the scientist, the pulpit of the preacher. From the highest to the humblest tasks, all are of equal honour; all have their part to play.

Sir Winston Spencer Churchill, December 30, 1941,

 Speech to the Canadian Senate and House of Commons, Ottawa

God’s cause will triumph - William Carey

When I left England, my hope of India's conversion was very strong; but amongst so many obstacles, it would die, unless upheld by God. Well I have God and His Word is true. Though the superstitions of the heathen were a thousand times stronger than they are, and the example of the Europeans a thousand times worse; though I were deserted by all and persecuted by all, yet my faith, fixed on the sure Word, would rise above all obstructions and overcome every trial. God’s cause will triumph.

William Carey

Prayer Is - Brother Andrew

 It's not the preparation for battle; 

    prayer is the battle.

‑Brother Andrew

Communication - Michael Been

 Communication

How do you feel when the talks break down

How do you feel when the lines are broken

What do you say when love can't be found

What do you do when the truth's not said

What appeals to me

Can't appeal to everyone

What is real for me

Can't be real for everyone

How do you feel when the talks break down

What do you do when the door won't open

What do you say when love can't be found

How do you care when your heart grows cold

What it means to me

Is not the same For everyone

What is real for me

Can't be real for everyone

Still unforgiving, our eyes turn away

Holding us back, holding us back

What d you do when the talks break down

You against me, when it makes no sense

Stronger and harder we hold our ground

We've poised our trust now it's self defence

What it means to me

For one I can't be sure at all

I can see no difference

Between you and me at all

Life on the edge is a way of life here

Life on the edge

Privilege

How do you feel when the talks break down

How do you feel when the lines are broken

What do you say when love can't be found

What do you do when the truth's not said

What appeals to me

Can't appeal to everyone

What is real for me

Can't be real for everyone

Still unforgiving, our eyes turn away

Holding us back, Holding us back

How do you feel when the talks break down

How do you feel when the lines are broken

What do you say when love can't be found

What do you do when the truth's not said

William Barclay Quotes

William Barclay

• A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
• But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus, and where nothing will separate us from Him any more.
• Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory. 
• For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him. 
• God himself took this human flesh upon him.
• If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach. 
• In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.
• Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross. 
• Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are. 
• The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity. 
• The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way. 
• There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
• We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away. 
• When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.
• When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive. 

Change the world - The Aeronauts

 You don't change the world simply by looking at it. You change the world by the way you choose to live in it. Look up, the Sky's Open!

Felicity Jones as Amelia Wren The Aeronauts

Preaching the gospel requires us to . . . - JI Packer

In the Bible, the gospel is the entire saving plan of God, all revolving around the person, the place and power of our Savior Jesus Christ, the incarnate, crucified, risen, reigning, returning Lord.

Preaching the gospel requires us to show how Jesus Christ relates to every part of God's plan, and how every part of it relates to us who are savingly related to the living Christ through faith.

Evangelism involves explaining life in Christ as well as inviting sinners to Him. This means dealing with six main topics, as follows:

1. The Truth about God. 

The one God who made and rules everything is revealed as three persons through His plan of salvation. The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit love us, and work together to save us from sin and make us holy. Jesus Christ, God the Son incarnate, is Lord over all the powers of evil. Any other view of God is idolatry.

2. The Truth about Ourselves.

We were made for God, to bear His image and be like Him in moral character, but sin controls and spoils us so that we need to be brought back to God to be forgiven and remade. Jesus Christ, who brings us back, is Himself the model of true godliness. Any other view is deception.

3. The Story of God's Kingdom.

Step by step, as Scripture tells, God has been working to establish His kingdom in this fallen world. Jesus Christ is the King, and our lives are to be His kingdom. King Jesus is also the Judge, and those who have not bowed to His kingship here will not share His joy hereafter. Trusting, loving and honoring Jesus, and serving others for His sake, is true godliness at its heart. Any other form of religion is error.

4. The Way of Salvation.

Jesus Christ, our sin‑bearer on the cross, now from His throne reaches out to rescue us who are lost in the guilt and shame of sin. He calls for faith (trust in Him as Savior) and repentance (turn to Him as Master). He sends His Holy Spirit to change us inwardly so that we hear His call as addressed to us personally and respond wholeheartedly to it. Whereupon we are forgiven and accepted (justified); received as God's children (adopted); made to rejoice at our peace with Him (assurance); and made to realize that now we are living a new life in Christ (regeneration). Any other view of salvation is deficient.

5. The Life of Fellowship.

Christians belong in the church, the family of God, sharing its worship, work, witness and warfare, and enjoying its worldwide brotherhood in Christ. Any other view of the Christian is sectarian.

6. Walking Home to Heaven.

Helped by the ministry in the church of word and sacrament, prayer and pastoral care, spiritual gifts and loving support, Christians live in our constantly hostile world as travelers, heading for a glorious destination. Led and inspired by their Savior through the Holy Spirit, they seek to do all the good they can as they go, and to battle all forms of evil that they meet. Any lesser view of the Christian life is wordly.

All this is permanently and universally true, transcending all differences of color, race, culture, age, gender, health, economic standing, social position and political background. As the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit sustain us all, so the gospel levels us all, teaching us to know ourselves as great sinners saved by God's greater grace, and to see all non‑Christians as needing that same grace themselves.

For reflection and Consideration:

1. How completely am I preaching the Gospel?

2. Which of these six Gospel topics do I need to preach more fully than I have been preaching?

3. Am I including the Father, Son and Holy Spirit in my preaching?

4. Am I properly explaining the saving relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ?

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Amsterdam 2000 may have differed significantly from this text.

J.I. Packer

The Content of the Gospel

Save all you can - DL Moody

"I look upon this world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a lifeboat and said to me, 'Moody, save all you can.'" 

D.L. Moody

Gracefully Broken - Matt Redman

 

God will break you to position
He will break you to promote you
And break you to put you in your right place
But when He breaks you He doesn't hurt you, He doesn't
When He breaks you He does it with; grace
Anybody been gracefully broken?
Thank You, Lord, thank You
So Father tonight, we're broken before You
Thank You for handling us with grace
Just lift your worship right there in this moment

Take all I have in these hands
And multiply, God, all that I am
And find my heart on the altar again
Set me on fire, set me on fire
Take all I have in these hands
And multiply, God, all that I am
And find my heart on the altar again
Set me on fire, set me on fire

Here I am, God
Arms wide open
Pouring out my life
Gracefully broken

My heart stands in awe of Your name
Your mighty love stands strong to the end
You will fulfill Your purpose in me
You won't forsake me, You will be with me

Here I am, God
Arms wide open
Pouring out my life
Gracefully broken
Here I am, God
Arms wide open
Pouring out my life
Gracefully broken

All to Jesus now
All to Jesus now
I'm holding nothing back
Holding nothing back
I surrender (I surrender)
Y'all throw your hands up and sing I surrender (I surrender)
Say I surrender (I surrender)
All that I am, I surrender (I surrender)
Have Your way, use me Lord, I surrender (I surrender)
Do Your will, it's all Your way, I surrender (I surrender)
Use my life for Your glory, say I surrender all (I surrender)
You want to tell right where you are (I surrender)

(Oh) Your power at work in me
(Oh) I'm broken gracefully
(Oh) I'm strong when I am weak
(Oh, ooh-oh) I will be free
(Oh, ooh-oh) Your power at work in me
(Oh, ooh-oh) I'm broken gracefully
(Oh, ooh-oh) I'm strong when I am weak
(Oh, ooh-oh) I will be free
(Oh, ooh-oh) Your power at work in me
(Oh, ooh-oh) I'm broken gracefully
(Oh, ooh-oh) I'm strong when I am weak
(Oh, ooh-oh) I will be free
(Oh, ooh-oh) Your power at work in me
(Oh, ooh-oh) I'm broken gracefully
(Oh, ooh-oh) I'm strong, I'm strong
(Oh, ooh-oh) I will be free

Here I am, God
Arms wide open
Pouring out my life
Gracefully broken

This is your Life - the Call

 

This is your Life

This is your world, beginning to end

This is the price of heaven,—our hope,—this is the time

This is your life

The push and the pull, we give and we take, we rise and we fall, we bend and we brake the future is ours, the promise is true, this is your life

I’ve seen it before, I’ve seen it many times, an impossible task—cut down to size, we stand in the breach we fight at the front, this is your life

Yeah.

This is your Life

This is your world, beginning to end

This is the price of heaven, our hope, this is the time

This is your life

We’ve all grown up together,

It’s a shame we grow apart.

Yeahhh

We’ve grown up together,

It’s a shame we grow apart.

Yeahhh

This is your Life,

This is your world, beginning to end

This is the price of heaven, our hope, this is the time

This is your life

It’s a world without end,

It’s a stroll through the fire,

The journey that begins, on the length of the wire

We’re rarely at ease, the pressure is high

This is your life

And so it begins we reach for the stars

Lift up your voice, freedom is ours

The spirits alive, Oh what a ride

This is your life

This is your Life

This is your world, beginning to end

This is the price of heaven, our hope, this is the time

This is your life

This is your Life

This is your world, the struggle begins

This is the price of heaven, our hope, this is your chance

This is your life'

Author: Michael Been