Receiving the gift of limits as a church is both essential and challenging. It’s essential because, if we don’t, we miss the unique and creative ways God wants to move through our communities. And it’s challenging because it requires creating a new a discipleship culture that not only affirms limits as a value, but also helps people to integrate limits in practical ways. Over the years, there are at least four ways that we have worked to intentionally embed the gift of limits into our church: we systematize self-care of leaders, set limits on invasive people, give people freedom to say no, and
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