St. Peter’s affirms those relationships ordained by God to be the focus of love, intimacy, personal growth and stability which provides the essential foundation for Christian living. (PROV 6:20-23). Therefore we consider it a priority that

[a] Husbands and wives understand God’s blueprint for marriage and family life (GEN 4:24, EPH 5: 21-33, COL 3:18-19, 1COR 13:4-7) as establishing essential witness to the society in which we live.

[b] We uphold the scriptural principle that believers be yoked only with believers in the intimate one flesh covenant of marriage ( 1COR 8:39, 2COR 6:14-18).

Christians believe that marriage is a “sacrament of creation,” that is, it is not something that began with the Christian faith or was created by the Church. Rather, it is God’s intention in creating human sexuality, in making us in God’s image, male and female together, that we should find fulfillment and partnership in faithful, life-long relationships of love.

We believe that God honors and blesses all such relationships between men and women, whether or not they are formalized in a 'church service’. What creates a marriage is not the ceremony, nor the piece of paper, but the honest and unreserved commitment of a woman and a man to take each other as wife and husband for better or for worse for the rest of their lives. But because we all live as part of society, this commitment must be in some way made public and lived out in the context of our social, economic and political lives.

A “church wedding” should be chosen only by those couples who see their marriage in the context of an ongoing faith relationship with God and the Lord Jesus Christ, or who wish to seriously explore that relationship, and who desire to make their marriage vows in the form of a solemn covenant between themselves and God, witnessed by and celebrated within the community of faith, the Church.