The Accra Regional overseer of the Resurrection Power and Living Bread Ministries has advised husbands not to change their wife’s surnames despite it being a norm.
According to Bishop Yaw Owusu Ansah, the change of surname for wives isn’t Biblical, the reason Christians who practice the word must follow it to the latter, nothing that the likes of Abraham never had their wives bearing their names.
He added that men should focus on building a good life with their wives than changing their names which is their family identity.
“So it is my view that if I marry you as my wife, I don’t need to impose my name on you because you come from a family and I believed that coming from a family, there is a reason why God put you and brought you out of that family. So keeping that name doesn’t change anything if you are my wife,” he said in an interview.
“I have read through the whole bible, there is nowhere that you will come across that Adam’s wife was Mrs. Adams nor Jacob’s wife was Mrs. Jacob.
“So if we the Christians are practicing the same thing, then I believed that we have to apply everything from the beginning to the end. And you come to New Testament, I haven’t come across Mathew’s wife was Mrs. Mathew or John’s wife was Mrs. John.
