Pastor Advice Women “God Never Said Anywhere Wives Should Take Husband’s Surname”

A clergyman, Bishop Yaw Owusu-Ansah, is advising men not to force their wives to take their surnames.

The Accra Regional Overseer of the Resurrection Power and Living Bread Ministries said the act isnโ€™t biblical.

According to him, nowhere in the Bible did God ask women to bare their husbandโ€™s surname.

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The renowned pastor said, he has combed through the entire bible and didnโ€™t find it.

โ€œI believe that from the days of Adam, and I have read through the whole Bible, there is nowhere that you will come across that Adamโ€™s wife was Mrs. Adam neither Jacobโ€™s wife was Mrs. Jacob neither Isaac, Joshua or Daniel.โ€

โ€œSo if we the Christians are practicing the same thing, then I believe that we have to apply everything from the beginning to the end. And you come to New Testament, I havenโ€™t come across that Mathewโ€™s wife was Mrs. Mathew or Johnโ€™s wife was Mrs. John.โ€

Bishop Yaw Owusu-Ansah thus asked men to be focused on building a life with their wives, either than changing names.

He insisted that there is a reason God put everyone in a particular family, and no one should attempt to change it.

โ€œSo it is my view that if I marry you as my wife, I donโ€™t need to impose my name on you because you come from a family and I believe that coming from a family, there is a reason why God put you and brought you out of that family.โ€

โ€œSo keeping that name doesnโ€™t change anything if you are my wife. God told Abraham, Iโ€™ll make your name great. So God making my wifeโ€™s name great, my daughterโ€™s name great and my sisterโ€™s name great, if you come and marry her, let her keep her name, and you also keep that name that you have and let us build a life together. Building lives together doesnโ€™t change anything that because you didnโ€™t put my name on you, you canโ€™t be my wife.โ€

He told Winston Amoah and Kojo Yankson on Joy FMโ€™s Super Morning Show on Friday, May 20.

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