As of now pastors can refuse heterosexual weddings if they feel the union is un-Biblical. Like a believer with a non-believer, etc. In my church couples must submit to pre-marital counseling if they want a church wedding. Such could be an opportunity to speak the Good News of the Gospel to a while new audience.
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Two of my friends went to their pastor and ask him to perform their marriage and he refused because they were living together.
Re: “As of now pastors can refuse heterosexual weddings if they feel the union is un-Biblical. Like a believer with a non-believer, etc. In my church couples must submit to pre-marital counseling if they want a church wedding.”
This is also the case in my church. My pastor says if he is asked whether or not he will perform same sex marriages, he will say he believes in the Biblical view of marriage, and therefore he cannot. When they say “what does that have to do with it?,” he will say because he believes in the Biblical view of marriage. When they say “what does that mean?,” he will say it is explained in the Bible. Find your answers there.
In other words, he wants to force them to see that their disagreement is with the Bible, God’s Word. It won’t protect him, but he wants to use it as an opportunity to witness for God’s truth.
Both my wife and I had been widowed. At the time of our wedding she was 61 and I was 69 years old.
When we went for our premarital counseling, we had to sign a paper that said we would accept any children that God would send us. We laughed, but signed it anyway. So far He hasn't seen fit to send us any.