resource categories
- God's Way - Leaders: The special teaching responsibility of ordained leaders within the every-member ministry of the body of Christ, and the need to provide for its continuance.
- God's Way - Women: The unique value of women's ministry in the local congregation but also the divine order of male headship, which makes the headship of women as priests in charge, incumbents, dignitaries and bishops inappropriate.
- God's Way - Marriage: The vital importance of monogamous life-long marriage for the care and nurture of children, and the well being of human society.
- God's Way - Sexuality: The rightness of sexual intercourse in heterosexual marriage, and the wrongness of such activity both outside it and in all its homosexual forms.
- God's Way - Church Governance: The urgent need for decentralisation at national, diocesan and deanery level, and the need radically to reform the present shape of episcopacy and pastoral discipline, to enable local churches to evangelise more effectively.
- Reform Conferences: Downloads from recent Reform Conferences
The Marriage Resource website www.marriageresource.org.uk has a large directory of resources available to download, some of which are listed below - click on the title to download as a pdf.
Taking Marriage Seriously in your Church - Analyses the consequences of family breakdown and the statistical success of efforts aiming at reducing it. Uses the findings to recommend an effective church marriage policy, and describes the practical steps to take to implement it.
The following three articles give ideas of ways to promote marriage education, preparation and enhancement, and give a helpful list of media resources and courses available, describing where and how each is best used.
Marriage Education for Young People
National Marriage Week Ideas - Some suggestions for church events.
Day of Prayer for Marriage - Some suggestions for what a church can do for the Day of Prayer in National Marriage Week, with examples of prayers that could be used.
When Cohabitees Ask for Help - This article gives some background affirming the undesirability of cohabitation and discusses how counsellors best help cohabiting couples in a way that also honours God's purposes for marriage.
Other Websites Offering Resources
Bristol Community Family Trust offers marriage courses in Bristol: www.bcft.co.uk
Care for the Family: www.careforthefamily.org.uk/marriage/
National Marriage Week has its own website www.marriage-week.org.uk giving ideas for how to get involved in celebrating the Week, resources available and links to supporting organisations.
The Jubilee Centre: www.jubilee-centre.org/topics.php?topicID=1
Understanding the Gospel
The Christian wedding service cannot be fully understood without understanding the gospel and the relationship that Jesus has with his bride the church. There are two web sites below with links to help with exploring Christianity and explaining Christianity.
Christianity Explored: http://www.christianityexplored.org/
Two ways to live: www.matthiasmedia.com.au/2wtl/
Reform, as a grass roots movement, envisages action coming from members who have thought, studied, discussed and agreed. All these web resources are in keeping with the Reform Covenant but the individual contributors alone are responsible for the content.