Accra, Dec. 10, GNA -

Reverend Dr. Edem Tetteh, the Moderator-elect of the Global Evangelical Church, has advised Ghanaians, especially Christians not to allow money to destroy their marriages.

He said most marriages face separation or imminent divorce because the couples did not understand the place of money in their marriages.

Rev. Dr. Tetteh gave the advice at a mass wedding organised by the Global Evangelical Church Redemption Chapel, Mamprobi Banana Inn, in which 16 couples were joined in Holy Matrimony.

The moderator observed that God’s paramount desire was for couples to remain one and be faithful in their finances.

“Most couples fail God’s financial tests in their marriages due to selfishness, greed and wickedness, while others too exhibit honesty, friendliness and how much they trust God in their finances’, he noted.

Rev. Dr. Tetteh advised the newly wedded as well as existing and potential couples to remain one in their finances so as to attract God’s blessings in all that they did.

He said the decision to remain united in all things might not be rosy but with determination and God’s help, they would succeed.

He said, the situation where in-laws, friends and or other relatives could identify property and other possessions of each of the couples separately was not in the best interest of the marriage and added that the practice should be halted .

Rev. Raph Mark Attih, Parish Pastor of the Redemption Chapel, noted that the idea for organising the mass wedding was to erase the erroneous impression and misconception that marriage and for that matter weddings were meant to be flamboyant and very expensive, thereby scaring away would-be couples from it.

He said, the practice where the youth and other potential couples co-habitat was in bad taste, adding that God does not approve of it.

Rev. Attih said couples, who brought their marriages before God and exchanged their vows, were bound to remain committed to their marriage advising people yet to marry to do so according to God precepts.

He said the family was the basic unit and foundation of every society and marriage also happened to be the foundation of the family, hence it had to be built on Godly values and principles.

Rev. Attih therefore encouraged all marriage couples and potentials ones to work at their own marriages and not to concentrate on the negatives, saying “if you do not work at your marriage, it will not work by itself.