Pastor Femi Lazarus, Lead Pastor of Sphere Of Light Church, has advised the women in his congregation not to marry a man whose phone they cannot have access to.
Pastor Lazarus specifically warned women against subscribing to the idea that for them to have peace, they should not go through their husbands’ phones.
The pastor further explained that although he is in Ibadan, his devices in Lagos have his WhatsApp installed and his wife has the liberty to see his chats.
Quoting from Ephesians 5:21, Lazarus urged spouses to submit themselves one to another.
“If you submit yourself, you submit your phone. How do you say there is trust and the only way to know that there is trust is that she must not open your phone?
“And women have told themselves, if you want to have joy, dont open your husband’s phone. It is wrong teaching. Marry the one whose phone you are free to open.
“I am in Ibadan. I have devices at home that my WhatsApp is opened on. So, if you chat me up, we are two reading it,” he said.
According to him, many spouses should be accountable to themselves and have spiritual fathers or mothers who can call them to order when they go wrong.