Sermon Tone Analysis

Kate and Ryan

Prelude

TBD

ASK ABOUT PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS

Processional

Everyone walks in

Bridal Entrance

“If you are able, please rise for the entrance of the Bride”

Give Away (ASK HOW THEY WANT TO HANDLE THIS)

Welcome & Opening Prayer

Welcome

Hello friends, my name is Clint, on behalf of Kaitlyn, Ryan and their families, welcome and thank you for coming and for being a part of this very special day.

We are here today to honor God, and to rejoice in the special love that Kate and Ryan have found in one another.

Please join me in prayer as we ask God to bless our time together.

Holy Spirit, we welcome your presence right now.

Father, we are grateful to you for the blessing of marriage.

Lord, we thank you so much for the way that you love us, and that you’ve given us people to share that love with.

So here we are today to celebrate Kate, Ryan’s love and as, their family and friends bless their marriage.

Lord, I ask that you would bless this day, fill it with your love.

Bless this couple who stands before you today, strengthen them, and let them draw closer to you, and closer to each other, every single day of their lives.

We ask for this in your Holy Name.

Amen

Focus Them

Hi guys, how are you doing?

You made it, you are finally here.

I want you to take a deep breath.

Seriously guys take a deep breath.

Take a look around at everyone.

All these people are here because they love you and they recognize that you two have found something special.

Everyone here is for you, we are all here to celebrate you guys and cheer you on.

Now look back at each other.

Savor this moment and be present.

This is one of the most important days of your lives, and it goes fast.

Soak each and ever moment in.

Charge to Couple & Declaration of Intent

Ryan and Kate are here before all of us and before God to join their hearts and lives together for the rest of their days.

This Is a public declaration of their love and devotion to one another.

All right you two.

Marriage is a very good thing, but it’s a big commitment.

Marriage isn’t just a contract you sign, it’s not just a way to get some tax breaks, but marriage is designed as a covenant.

Yes, it has legal ramification, but it’s much deeper than that.

When you enter into this covenant you two in a very real way become one.

Every part of your lives is now intertwined, you are no longer your own person but you belong to your spouse.

And don’t get me wrong, it’s great, it’s a good thing, and it’s a big deal.

No one should make this commitment on a whim, but with seriousness, and in great Joy.

I’m pretty sure that’s why you guys are here, but just to make certain, I’m going to ask you some questions.

At the end, if they sound like it’s something you’re up for, respond with “I Do”.

Sound good?

Alright, Ryan, you go first:

Ryan

Do you, Ryan, take Kaitlyn to be your wife, to cherish in friendship and love today, tomorrow, and for as long as the two of you live, to trust and honor her, to love her faithfully, through the best and the worst, whatever may come, and if you should ever doubt, to remember your love for each other and the reason why you came together with her this day?

If so respond with I do.

Kate

Do you,Kaitlyn, take Ryan to be your husband, to cherish in friendship and love today, tomorrow and for as long as the two of you live, to trust and honor him, to love him faithfully, through the best and the worst, whatever may come, and if you should ever doubt, to remember your love for each other and the reason why you came together with him this day?

If so respond with I do.

Reading

At this time I’d like to invite up Ryan’s father Tim.

Tim is going to be sharing a reading with us today

1 John 4:7-12 “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.”

1 John 4:19 “We love because he first loved us.”

Thank you Tim

Message

Intro

Alright Guys, you made it, you are finally here!

Sit back, relax and just take everything in.

This is your moment, enjoy it.

Today you are starting the first day of the rest of you lives together.

I firmly believe that next to your relationship with God, your marriage is the most important thing in your life, and anything you can do to make it healthy and strong is a good thing.

Your marriage will be amazing at times, and crazy hard at other.

Together you two will go an amazing adventures together, and overcome obstacles.

Your marriage will help you thrive and will help you grow into the people you were created by God to be.

I’ve been a pastor for almost ten years, and married for almost nine, and I’d love to pass on to you guys a piece of scripture that really paints a beautiful picture of what a healthy marriage looks like.

So I’m going to read this verse, and I’ve got four things out of it for the two of you.

After I share those for things, will do vows and rings and what not, and then you guys will be officially married and we can all go celebrate, sound good?

The verse comes out of the book of Ecclesiastes, Chapter 4, verses nine through twelve.

It says:

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

9 Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor:10 If either of them falls down, one can help the other up.

But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.11

Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm.

But how can one keep warm alone?12

Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves.

A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

Two are better than one- You’re a team

Point number one, Two are better than one, you two, you are a team.

In each other you have found a companion that will be by your side for the rest of your life.

You will be with each other no matter what happens.

When one of you wins, you both win.

When one of you is hurting, you are both hurting.

When life gets difficult, remember that you two are better together.

It’s never you versus each other, instead it’s the two of you verses the problem.

You each have amazing gifts and talents that you are brining into your marriage.

The are meant to build each other up, to help the other person thrive.

I think that you two are naturally really good at this.