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).
Brown The Devil's Mission of Amusement 7 page article from 1889. Hollywood in the church and her ministries. Brown was a student of C.H Spurgeon.
Excerpts:
Different days demand their own special testimony. The watchman who would be faithful to his Lord and to the city of his God needs to carefully note the signs of the times and to emphasize his witness accordingly. Concerning the testimony needed now, there can be little if any doubt. An evil is in the professed camp of the Lord, that is so gross, so brazen in its impudence, that the most shortsighted of spiritual men can hardly fail to notice it.... Amusement for the people is the leading article advertised by each... until the hideous fact has been proved up to the hilt, that "amusement" is ousting "the preaching of the Gospel" as the great attraction... The Concert is fast becoming as much a recognized part of church life as the Prayer Meeting; and it is already, in most places, far better attended.
"Providing recreation for the people" will soon be looked upon as a necessary part of Christian work, and as binding upon the Church of God, as though it were a Divine command, unless some strong voices are raised which will make themselves heard.
Read the 7-page article: Brown, The Devil's Mission of Amusement.
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
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