Officer Candidates

David Field fleshes out "one who manages his own household well" as it relates to qualification for church office. There's a lot of good sense here:
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It's a familiar situation. You're having a conversation with a young father after the Sunday morning church service. The young children are his responsibility at that moment.

They act rudely - and he ignores it.
They resist his authority - and he gives way.
They wander away - and he doesn't notice.
They hurt themselves or others - and he is unaware of it.
He knows - vaguely - that they are out of control - and he chooses to ignore it.
An intervention becomes unavoidable - and he acts with resentment, impatience, or anger.

Since there is a clear relationship between a man's 'pastoral care' of his family and his fitness to hold pastoral responsibility in the Church, what happens to the young children when they are under their father's care is a very, very, very simple test to apply.
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