This is the third and final episode in the Foundations of Relational Health series, and Jason and Lauren unpack boundaries: what they are and are not! Among other things, boundaries help us protect our main mission, our priorities, and our love for people. Jesus is our best model for how to use boundaries in order to stick to His mission in life! He responded to life from a confident posture, knowing that He was about His Father’s business. We need a sense of calling in order to know where our yeses lie, and we need an understanding of the responsibilities we have in order to know and tend to our priorities. We do not have limitless capacity, so maturity is in knowing and communicating our boundaries to the world around us by the way we conduct and manage our lives and relationships. Knowing how your relationships plot out within the “circles of intimacy” is a helpful visual aid in understanding where your highest priority relationships lie with regards to trust, intimacy, responsibility and expectations. Boundaries help us protect our love for people based on these factors! We can’t be everything to everyone, but we should have people in our lives with whom we have reciprocal relationships of deep intimacy. This episode on boundaries is a fly-over on the topic, which will lay groundwork for topics coming in future episodes.
Our Best Recommendation for Resources on Boudaries as Amazon Affiliate:
- Boundaries by Cloud and Townsend
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