A Christ-Centered Wedding Quotes

“Because marriage is God’s design, His doing, and meant for His glory, Christian marriages should be different. A sacrificial and submissive marriage is shocking to the world. In such a marriage, a husband and wife do not seek their own glory but look to one another’s good first, to the glory of God. This kind of marriage is beautiful—it’s what marriage was meant to be.”
― Catherine Strode Parks, A Christ-Centered Wedding: Rejoicing in the Gospel on Your Big Day

“The world does not fully understand marriage, because it does not understand the gospel. It does not understand submission and sacrificial love, because it does not know the one great story of Christ’s sacrifice for His bride, the church. However, more often than not, couples who claim to be Christians display marriages no different from those seen in the world. There is little understanding of the beautiful picture marriage is meant to be.”
― Catherine Strode Parks, A Christ-Centered Wedding: Rejoicing in the Gospel on Your Big Day

“Knowing that our marriages have such a high purpose—to display the gospel to the world—is both encouraging and sobering. Yet right there within the truth of the gospel is our hope. We more accurately display the truth of the gospel as we better understand it. See, not only does”
― Catherine Strode Parks, A Christ-Centered Wedding: Rejoicing in the Gospel on Your Big Day

“Marriage is patterned after Christ’s covenant relationship to his redeemed people, the church. And therefore, the highest meaning and the most ultimate purpose of marriage is to put the covenant relationship of Christ and his church on display. That is why marriage exists. . . . That is why we are married. That is why all married people are married, even when they don’t know and embrace this gospel.1”
― Catherine Strode Parks, A Christ-Centered Wedding: Rejoicing in the Gospel on Your Big Day

“On the other hand, a greater understanding of the gospel will help you experience deeper and deeper union with each other as the years”
― Catherine Parks, A Christ-Centered Wedding: Rejoicing in the Gospel on Your Big Day