Who We Are at Home

Day 291: 1 Timothy 3:1-16

“He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church? ... Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.” - ‭‭1 Timothy‬ ‭3:4-5, 12‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Amid all these qualifications for elders and deacons (lead servants of the church), we see these descriptions of their home lives toward the end of each list.

A real test of any leader is how they treat their family and what they act like in their safest space. Do we treat everyone at work and school with kindness but disrespect the ones who seemingly are “stuck with us?”

The word for manage is proistēmi, and Jesus used a version of this word when he said in Luke 22:26: “Let the greatest among you become as the youngest, and the leader as one who serves.”

So to manage your family is to serve them. It is to guide them to Jesus with your words and your life. No days off. No excuses.

Have you not been given a good example of this at home or in the church? We need you to set a new legacy for future generations. It is time for us to set a standard for what it looks like to humbly serve our Lord Jesus Christ.

May we be the kind of leaders that others actually want to follow.