This document discusses drawing lines and not crossing them in relationships and with God. It says respect requires defining boundaries in relationships. Crossing social lines can undermine society, and failing to establish boundaries between clergy and congregants can harm churches. The Bible describes people like Adam and King Saul crossing God's lines through disobedience. Jesus drew in the sand when confronting the woman caught in adultery. The story of Honi teaches about boldly praying and refusing to leave until receiving God's blessing. Overall it stresses the importance of knowing one's limits in how one interacts with others and God.

1. DRAWING IN THE SAND

2. If you draw a line in the sand, you establish a
limit beyond which things will be unacceptable
When we say that someone crosses the line
is because they have start behaving in a
way that is not acceptable.
If someone tells a vulgar joke in a place or
occasion that is not appropriate you may
say that that person crossed the line.
Crossing the line is to change from being
acceptable to being unacceptable

3. • Crossing the Line in our
social Relationships
• Crossing the Line with God
• Writing in Sand
• Learning how to draw the
line

4. CROSSING THE LINE IN
OUR RELATIONSHIPS

5. Respect can only be maintained if you
define boundaries in your relationships
• In all realms of life we learn how to interact with others. Our
teachers should be respected, a police officer, a judge, a
president, etc. We learn how to address others without
crossing the line. In Church we have to learn how to do the
same.
• If social lines are crossed society can come apart. One of the
reasons of the failure of public education is because the
liberal way of thinking gives no importance to draw the line
between students and teachers. One of the reasons why some
Churches fail is because there is no line between members of
the congregation and those that are called for full time
ministry.

6. Mark 6:4-5
• Jesus affirmed that a
prophet is without
honor in his home
town, and in view of
that reality, He could
not perform any
miracles in Nazareth
except for healing a
few sick people.

7. CROSSING THE LINE WITH
GOD...

8. Adam crossed the line
• Genesis 2:16-17
• 16 And the Lord God
commanded the man,
saying, “You may surely eat
of every tree of the garden,
17 but of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil
you shall not eat, for in the
day that you eat of it you
shall surely die.”

9. 1 SAMUEL 13:10-14
10 As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold,
Samuel came. And Saul went out to meet him and greet him. 11
Samuel said, “What have you done?” And Saul said, “When I saw
that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not
come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines had
mustered at Michmash, 12 I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come
down against me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the favor of the
Lord. ’ So I forced myself, and offered the burnt offering.” 13 And
Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept
the command of the Lord your God, with which he commanded
you. For then the Lord would have established your kingdom over
Israel forever. 14 But now your kingdom shall not continue. The
Lord has sought out a man after his own heart, and the Lord has
commanded him to be prince over his people, because you have
not kept what the Lord commanded you.”

10. WRITING IN THE SAND

11. There is a Bible story of the 'woman
caught in the act of adultery' (John 8)
According to Jewish
law, it was unlawful to
write even two letters
on the sabbath day,
but it was acceptable
to write in dust!
(shabbat 7:2, 12:5)

12. What was He writing?
1 Samuel 2:8
"He raises up the
poor from the dust;
he lifts the needy
from the ash heap to
make them sit with
princes and inherit a
seat of honor."

13. DRAW YOUR OWN LINE IN
THE SAND

14. The Story of Honi
(The Circle Maker)
by pastor Mark Batterson

15. Know your Boundaries and don't
cross the line...with others...with God
We need to learn how to
pray like Honi and draw
our own lines in the sand.
The lines that we should
not cross and the lines that
help us to pray boldly. We
need to tell God, "I will not
leave this place until you
bless me!"