Samuel Reid | Author + Caregiver
@WholenessSermons
Author | Songwriter | Guitar Player | Caregiver + I am the Founder of AY (Adult and Youth) Ministries. I have been a caregiver for over 3 years – a physical caregiver at home and a therapeutic sensory companion at church – and have also had over 10 years of exposure to ungodliness (worship, behavior, and movies).
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Samuel Reid
Here is the LIVE video of my sermon at church on The Importance of Boundaries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwcgiF_KNGY.
Samuel Reid
Ever since January 2023, I have had a very high standard concerning justice based on real experience.
My boundary beliefs are the 8 Rs: Reiterate, Respect, Rescue, Regret, Reverse, Relationships, Reveal, and Report.
1. Reiterate – When a person tells someone else not to touch them and they keep touching them, when you intervene on the person's behalf, reiterate what the person tells the personal space invader to do, so that they can take the person seriously. When you do not reiterate what the person tells the personal space invader to do, they will continue invading their personal space.
2. Respect – When someone tells you that they do not like physical touch or they have a disability, you have to respect them. If you do not respect them, you will make the person uncomfortable, and they will not want to be around you anymore. If the person is clearly uncomfortable with physical touch and you keep touching them or they have a disability and you continue to treat them like an outcast, that's unacceptable behavior. There are also people who only allow certain people to physically touch them and disabled people who are only comfortable interacting with certain people, so it's important to also keep those in mind.
3. Rescue – When a person cannot stand up for themselves when someone else oversteps their physical boundaries or will not accept them for who they are as a disabled person, be that safe space for the person and ask them how they feel about the situation and how they want to handle it. You might be the only person they can go to because they only feel safe being around you and comfortable talking to you about the situation.
4. Regret – When we invade someone else's personal space or treat a disabled person like an outcast and then years later, the situation came full circle and we see someone else invading a person's personal space or we find ourselves disabled, we remember when we used to invade someone else's personal space or treat a disabled person like an outcast and we try to prevent the situation from happening to someone else.
5. Reverse – We do not realize that by not doing something about the situation, we are following the world's standards on how to deal with a person invading someone else's personal space or treating a disabled person like an outcast. We need to reverse the mindset from the world's standards to God's standard, which is the Bible.
6. Relationships – We do not realize that our actions, whether good or bad, affect people and their view on us. We have to be mindful of our actions towards others because our actions can either cause them to want to be around us more or cause them to not want to be around us at all.
7. Reveal – When a person is dealing with a personal space invader or a disabled person is dealing with being treated like an outcast and they reveal the truth to you about it, you have to listen to them. You can make the excuse that you do not believe them or you do not want to hear what they have to say because it is their story.
8. Report – When it comes to dealing with a personal space invader, there are people who report inappropriate behavior to police or to church leadership, but for me, the best person to report inappropriate behavior to is God because He is The Ultimate Reporter. He gives us guidelines on how to deal with inappropriate behavior. Matthew 18:15-17 says: “Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.”
These are my boundary beliefs that I have lived and not just talked about.
Samuel Reid
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