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Titus 1:6
6 If any [ei tis] be [esti] blameless [anegkletos], the husband [aner] of one [mia] wife [gune], having [echo] faithful [pistos] children [teknon] not [me] accused [en] [kategoria] of riot [asotia] or [e] unruly [anupotaktos]. KJV-Interlinear
6 namely, if any man be above reproach, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, not accused of dissipation or rebellion. NASB
People who were given responsibility over the teaching and functions of the scriptures, are expected to be reasonably honorable and honest people.
And though ones true home is within ones soul, and therefore if you have ample self control over your own soul through spiritual growth, then presumably you will have some semblance of control over your own family household.
However we all know that parents and kids have their issues from time to time, and people themselves have issues from time to time as well.
The spiritual life is typically illustrated by the temporal life. Parables are typical teaching aids, used to covey the spiritual principles of life.
Thus blameless, is an expression of one who utilizes the confession function regularly, thus residing in fellowship as often as possible. Blameless, is one who is without sin, and there is only one environment that exists without sin and that is the fellowship sphere which is obtained upon confession of ones sins to God the Father. Refer to the study of 1, 2, and 3rd John for this study.
One wife, indicates that you do not split your love among many objects of your affection. Thus Bible doctrine is your true love or should be. This excludes sin, lusts, and the many non-spiritual targets of ones attention in life.
One wife, excludes polygamy, homosexual tendencies, and several other unnatural or degenerate tendencies.
One cannot practice spirituality as well as carnal tendencies simultaneously. Therefore the carnal life around us is filled with examples of honorable living in order to teach us how to live the spiritual life.
You can look until everything freezes, and you will never find a perfect person. Just look at all of the celebrities, politicians, leaders, role models, anyone you can think of, and you will find skeletons galore. Everyone has a flaw or two in their life. Everyone sins, sins of some kind, on virtually a daily basis. Therefore no one could possibly be a candidate for leadership based on human standards.
However, when seeking out leadership candidates, you have to look to the pattern of the life that people have chosen for themselves. Flaws exist for everyone. Look at Paul. He was formerly known as Saul and he murdered Christians just because of their beliefs. And yet Paul had become one of the greatest scriptural instructors of all time.
Titus was instructed to find and appoint people who had demonstrated a passion for doctrine, and it only helps when their lives have some semblance of stability.
Obvious failures, obvious duplicity, obvious deceptions, obvious pretense were good reasons for not selecting someone for the all important role of leading people in doctrine, and especially leading this first foundation generation after the Cross.
If someone lacked knowledge in doctrine, if someone led a life of double standards, if someone's life was filled with emotional distractions, then they would not make good candidates for leadership.
God uses prepared believers, and preparation comes first in faith, first in spiritual growth, first in establishing a pattern of life which is consistent with Gods mandates, and not mans desires.
In the spiritual life, there is no room for compromise or double standards.
The only legitimate promotion in life, the only legitimate recognition in life, comes only from God, and from no other source. And these things come only to prepared believers, who live a life of poise, not promoted by ego driven approbations or lusts.
