Bouwman Form for the Solemnisation of Marriage
By Rev C Bouwman
Summary of Bouwman Form for the Solemnisation of Marriage
This is a 15 chapter work on marriage. Bouwman looks at the OT background, and the spiritual aspect of marriage as paralleling our relationship (Israel’s) with God as husband and wife. He has a chapter on divorce (his position is that it is valid for fornication).
Dagg Manual of Theology (and links to this work in various other formats).
Dagg Manual of Theology (MySword for Android)
Dagg Manual of Theology (theWord Bible Format)
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Chapter Content of Bouwman Form for the Solemnisation of Marriage
01. INTRODUCTION
02. WHY A COURSE ON THE MARRIAGE FORM?
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. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND TO THE SOLEMNISATION OF MARRIAGE AND THE MARRIAGE FORM
04. MARRIAGE “IN THE NAME OF THE LORD”
05. THE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE – Genesis 2:18-24
THE CREATION OF MAN AND WOMAN AND THE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE
Sixth Day Overview
Sixth Day Detailed
06. GOD’S PRINCIPLES FOR MARRIAGE AS TAUGHT IN GENESIS 2:18
God’s assessment of man’s aloneness: “It is not good that man should be alone.”
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. THE RESTORATION OF MARRIAGE – John 2:1-11
THE FALL INTO SIN AND MARRIAGE BREAKDOWN
CHRIST’S REDEEMING WORK AND THE RESTORATION OF MARRIAGE
Christ’s Gospel for Marriage
08. THE PERMANENCE OF MARRIAGE – Matthew 19:6
09. GOD: ISRAEL’S FAITHFUL HUSBAND
God and Abraham
God and Jacob
God and the Seventh Commandment
10. ISRAEL: GOD’S UNFAITHFUL WIFE
11. GOD’S RESPONSE TO ISRAEL’S FAITHLESSNESS
12. THIS MOTIF CONTINUED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
13. SCRIPTURE ON DIVORCE
Adultery: the ONE Permissible Ground for Divorce
The Case of the Unbelieving Spouse
14. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CHURCH’S STANCE ON DIVORCE
15. CONCLUSION
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?
Bouwman Form for the Solemnisation of Marriage
PC29 Don’t be a Gossip. We examine the sin of gossiping and slander in the light of the Word of God. This study guides our thoughts.
Excerpt from the Tract
Leviticus 19:16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor: I am the LORD.
The definition of gossip is a person who repeats news or rumors, even murmurings or conversation that hurts other people’s image, when these people are absent and cannot defend themselves. It is a cowardly form to speak about others behind their backs (or being absent) in order to discover something (true or false) about them that they would not say in front of that person to their face because it is insulting or would humiliate the person. Gossip is an attack against the person they are talking about.
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See also Church Planting Workshop: Handling Gossip An article about handling gossip within the church.v
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