Perspective

The authors of the book, Dr. Cloud and Dr. Townsend, possess years of experience in counseling. They also counsel in hospitals, where they lead individual and group therapy sessions. They use several of their experiences in such counseling in this book.

The authors wrote this book to give a Christian perspective from the Bible on setting personal boundaries. Many Christians reject boundaries as unloving and therefore unbiblical. However, the authors set forth substantial support from the Bible and from their own experience, showing that boundaries are not only in line with the Bible, they also aid in furthering the message of it.

While anyone may gain insight from reading this book, the intended audience is a professional Christian that believes the Bible as a guide for all of life. Verses and principles from the Bible appear throughout the book as finite rules for all of life. Such a...