The Importance of Boundaries

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The Gospel Coalition

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🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Jackie Hill Perry, Jasmine Holmes, and Melissa Kruger talk about how to glorify God by setting boundaries.

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0:00.0	My favorite part about that passage is the part where it says that he did whatever people wanted him to do
0:04.9	because he was going to work like people and make them happy. Yeah, where was that? No, because it said
0:13.1	no. That's not in there. I see it. Okay, okay. Well, what about the part where people had a right to his
0:20.4	time and had a right to his ministry because his ministry was about serving people? What about that
0:26.5	part? It's not there. Not there. It's almost like Philippians too is about humility and obedience to
0:32.8	God and not being adornment to people. That is in a sense of boundary. It is a it's a huge boundary.
0:39.6	I'm not here for you. Yeah. What she said more than once. And Paul said if I was a servant of men,
0:44.9	I wouldn't be a servant of God. Right. Yeah. Right.
0:48.8	Hey, Saints. And welcome to Let's Talk, a podcast from the Gospel Coalition podcast network where we seek to
1:00.3	apply biblical wisdom to everyday life. My name is Jackie Hill Perry. And I'm here with Melissa
1:07.1	Krueger and Jasmine Holmes. And if you're enjoying this podcast, we hope you will spread the word that
1:12.9	you will evangelize about it on social media. Melissa, what is it that we're talking about today?
1:20.6	Today, we're going to talk about the concept of boundary. Yay. Jasmine's favorite topic. I know.
1:29.0	And this is boundary. Yeah. This is this is a tough kind of another tough topic. I feel like I've
1:34.3	said that every time. Um, complicated. Yeah, it's complicated. It's complicated. I feel very
1:40.4	complicated with this one. Um, because I like, you know, I struggle with people pleasing.
1:48.3	And so therefore, these are difficult for me to have for people because I want everybody to be okay.
1:55.8	Right. And so can you explain to us even the concept of boundary? And here's the thing about
2:01.3	people pleasing. You can also hide it under. I'm just being loving. Right. You know,
2:05.8	his boundary sounds self-centered. Right. Yeah. People bring up Philippians to all the time.
2:11.2	Yes. Made himself nothing. Took on the nature of his servant. Yeah. So let's look at that.
2:16.7	Let's look at the Philippians. Yeah. I think that'd be a really good place to start.
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