Teach us how to communicate (Boundaries)

Proverbs 4:23 NIV

23 Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

Relationships have 2 Key Elements

Grace

1 Peter 4:10 ESV

10 As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace:

Truth

Ephesians 4:15 ESV

15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

Relationships have 2 Key Issues

1.Someone in your life who is out of Control

Romans 13:13 ESV

13 Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.

2.Someone controlling someone else's problem

Galatians 5:1 ESV

1 For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Boundary-A Property Line

Love others without rescuing them

Galatians 6:2–5 ESV

2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. 3 For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. 4 But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor. 5 For each will have to bear his own load.

Should they be doing this themselves

2. Learn to confront in love

Matthew 18:15 ESV

15 “If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

Three steps to take with you to help you set up boundaries

Start from a Positon of LOVE

Say no when its best to say no

GIve consequences if Neccesary

You can see Restoration in Relationships

2 Corinthians 13:11 ESV

11 Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.