Respecting personal & professional boundaries is essential for building trust, fostering healthy relationships, and protecting individual well-being. For example, there are boundaries in sports, such as the outline of the playing field and the rules of which actions are considered acceptable or not. Likewise, there are many types of boundaries in our lives - spiritual, emotional, sexual, financial, relational and physical, to name a few. The Safe Church guidelines outline the expectation that personal boundaries are to be respected, and that vulnerable people’s boundaries are to be protected by the rest of the community.