In the premiere episode of the #WhatDoYouThink series, Jay and Tara Gates Anderson pose the question: Should a wife take her husband’s last name?

 

 

 

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Episode Title: Should a Wife Take Her Husband’s Last Name?

 

Co-host: Tara Gates Anderson – Follow Her on Twitter

 

Quotables:

• “For me, God’s Word is law.” – Tara Gates Anderson

 

• “To operate in God’s will I must read His Word.” – Tara Gates Anderson

 

• “Taking your husband’s last name is a sign of commitment.” – Jay Mayo

 

• “If you want to make a full commitment to your husband, take his last name.” – Jay Mayo

 

• “Always seek God’s Word first.” – Tara Gates Anderson

 

Question We Address and Answer:

• Does a wife need to take her husbands last name when she gets married?

 

Key Lessons and Takeaways:

• The importance of understanding the roles of a husband and a wife.
• How taking her husband’s last name unifies a wife to him.
• How a wife changing her last name to her husband’s is a reflection of the two of them being one flesh before the sight of God.
• The significance of a woman having a covering in her life.

 

Experiences:

• Tara tells about a co-worker who chose to take his wife’s last name after getting married.
• Jay explains why he would never take his wife’s last name and why his wife taking his last name is a requirement.

 

Scriptures:

• “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.“ – Ephesians 5:22 (NKJV)

 

• “But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.“ – 1 Corinthians 11:3 (NKJV)

 

• “And Adam said:

  “This is now bone of my bones
  And flesh of my flesh;
  She shall be called Woman,
  Because she was taken out of Man.”

  ²⁴ Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” – Genesis 2:23-24 (NKJV)

 

• “And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ ⁵ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?” – Matthew 19:4-5 (NKJV)

 

• “And Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.” – Genesis 3:20 (NKJV)

 

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