{"id":325491,"date":"2025-04-11T17:16:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T17:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2025\/04\/11\/some-pastors-have-sex-before-marriage-so-why-preach-abstinence\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T17:16:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T17:16:46","slug":"some-pastors-have-sex-before-marriage-so-why-preach-abstinence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2025\/04\/11\/some-pastors-have-sex-before-marriage-so-why-preach-abstinence\/","title":{"rendered":"Some pastors have sex before marriage, so why preach abstinence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/164\/16458595.295.jpg\" alt=\"Veteran Highlife musician and TV personality, Akosua Agyapong\" title=\"Veteran Highlife musician and TV personality, Akosua Agyapong\" width=\"295\" height=\"205\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Veteran Highlife musician and TV personality, Akosua Agyapong<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p id=\"article-123\">Veteran highlife musician and TV personality Akosua Agyapong has criticised what she describes as the hypocrisy of some pastors who preach abstinence but secretly engage in premarital affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a discussion on JoyPrime TV on April 10, 2025, on the topic of premarital sex, Agyapong accused certain clergymen of sleeping with their choristers and other church members, yet turning around to preach against fornication.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome pastors have already slept with their choristers and ushers. But when a man comes to marry them, the same pastor will say, \u2018No sex before marriage!\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Her issue with such pastors, she explained, stems from the fact that they continue to enjoy the trust of their congregations while contradicting their own teachings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can call them fake, but to their congregations, they\u2019re not. If they practised what they preached, I wouldn\u2019t have a problem. But they should stop lying to their members,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Agyapong\u2019s remarks follow her controversial call for single people to consider having sex before marriage.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, sexual compatibility is crucial for a successful marriage and helps prevent divorce and infidelity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFornication involves consenting adults, but adultery breaks marriages. Sometimes, we make Christianity too hard, people should worship God in truth, not under false restrictions,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>ID\/MA<\/p>\n<p>Click here to follow the GhanaWeb Entertainment WhatsApp channel <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Highlife musician and TV personality, Akosua Agyapong Veteran highlife musician and TV personality Akosua Agyapong has criticised what she describes as the hypocrisy of some pastors who preach abstinence but secretly engage in premarital affairs. Speaking during a discussion on JoyPrime TV on April 10, 2025, on the topic of premarital sex, Agyapong accused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":325492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-325491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Some pastors have sex before marriage, so why preach abstinence? - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2025\/04\/11\/some-pastors-have-sex-before-marriage-so-why-preach-abstinence\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Some pastors have sex before marriage, so why preach abstinence? - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Veteran Highlife musician and TV personality, Akosua Agyapong Veteran highlife musician and TV personality Akosua Agyapong has criticised what she describes as the hypocrisy of some pastors who preach abstinence but secretly engage in premarital affairs. 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