Apostle Nana Yaw – General Secretary of the Pentecost Church
THE PENTECOST Church of Ghana has banned its would-be married members from taking sexually suggestive pre-wedding pictures.
It has also prohibited the serving of alcoholic beverages and playing of ‘worldly’ songs with ungodly lyrics during wedding receptions. Besides, it has urged its pastors to encourage moderate and decent weddings to cut down cost.
General Secretary of the Pentecost Church Apostle Nana Yaw is said to have made the announcement on Saturday, January 26, 2019, at the Global Minister’s Conference at Pentecost Convention Centre in the Central Region.
The ban, according to the church, is due to the fact that a lot of would-be couples were going to the extreme of “touching” sensitive parts of each other as though they were married.
The apostle explained that “during the pre-engagement time, under the guise of courting, they would be taking all sorts of pictures and spreading them all over the place, and the pictures suggest they are already married.”
He added “you would realise that where they are touching and what they are doing are things that are supposed to be done by married couples.”
“So we really want to discourage that… some are even bold enough to bring it on the day of the celebration of the marriage. You see them on the screen – somebody has raised the lady, sitting on his lap, touching this place and all that. We really want to discourage it . . .”
Meanwhile, the church says it has taken steps to strengthen premarital counselling for prospective couples before they are brought to the altar, in order to reduce divorce rate.
The church has indicated that it will continue to hold in high esteem chastity in marriage, and strongly frown upon premarital sexual relationship between prospective couples.
BY Melvin Tarlue