Such irresponsibility breeds more of the same. As the public esteem of leaders plummets, and feminist views take over, fewer and fewer good men will desire to lead. This creates a serious leadership vacuum. But it is in the home, in fact, where male leadership is needed most of all. I will go so far as to say that leadership by men in the family is so critical, it can either make or break us as a nation and in the church.
Families are the building blocks of society.
Men are to be the leaders of families, and where there is weak leadership in the family, it results in a weak church, and a weak society. Leadership and authority in the home has been placed in your lap. Our passage today is part of a larger passage dealing with the qualifications of elders. An elder must manage or rule his family well. While not all men are called by God to be an elder in the church, all Christian men are called to godly management of their homes.