The criteria for being a leader in the local church is to be a faithful leader in your family. If you can be faithful in small things, you can then be trusted in larger things.

Life has some big important moments and a lot of smaller moments that seem less important. The big moments might include deciding to get married, accepting that job offer, or deciding to move countries. We want to make the right decisions at those key times in our lives. The big things do indeed matter a lot. Getting something like choosing to marry someone wrong or making that decision rashly would be a disaster.

Yet most of life is not about these big decisions. It is a lot of much smaller decisions. How will I respond when someone criticizes me? How will I treat my children when I am tired and grumpy after a long days’ work? How will I spend my free time, scrolling on my phone or doing something else?

I would argue that you can notice someone’s character more in the little things than the big ones. How someone treats those around them when tired or under pressure says a great deal about them.

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