Boundless Magazine has a great article on the decision whether to have alcohol served at a wedding. You can read the article here. I agree with his conclusion that the question to be asked is "how can we honor God in this wedding?" Your thoughts?
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Great article. The decision Kelly and I had was much less complex. We wanted to get married at OCAG, and wanted Pastor Brooks to marry us because of the relational ties in the church. Because those 2 things were the priority, we knew that there would be no alchohol or dancing at our wedding. Honestly, even if we would have served alchohol, only about 10% of the guests would have had anything anyways.
Kelly and I sing at a lot of weddings. And, after reading this article, and having seen so many people get married, I have to say that it's shameful how few people strived to make the glory of God a priority for that day.
The real shame would be to put some token things in a wedding, like communion and sacred songs, say a few prayers in the name of Jesus, and expect that to bring the blessing of the Lord. I wonder sometimes if God doesn't show up with His blessing in those situations. Anyone can say a prayer. Anyone can drink wine and break bread for communion. Anyone can sing a spiritual song. But the offering that God inhabits, or accepts, is surrender and obedience. The obedience part we have down. We do not do what the bible says exactly to not do, and we do the things it says to do. The surrender part is the taboo. When we SURRENDER to the ways of God, there WILL be things that the bible doesn't claim as sin, but we won't do because it's not GOOD or WISE.
I'll quit talking now.
Great article.
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