Basketball could be described as a complete sport, demanding more team participation than most other sports. Since its invention in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith, it is still played the same way, though playing styles have markedly changed. The rules have stayed relatively static. When the rules are followed, the game is exciting and enjoyable. Tragically, as professional basketball has taken center stage, the rules and regulations have been repeatedly ignored and violated. In this sense, basketball could serve as a metaphor for life. Dennis Rodman has been turned into an idol by an adoring press and fans who love to see a rebel defy authority and get away with it. The deterioration of the structure of basketball at all levels mirrors the destruction of society. When Dennis Rodman goes out of bounds, kicking a photographer in the groin, very little happens to him. The more audacious his behavior gets, the more endorsements he receives. According to John Leo in US News and World Report, Rodman has become the poster boy of the transgressive culture as Madonna has become its poster girl, allegedly giving 'normalcy' and 'respectability' to the scumbag element of society. Without physical boundaries, basketball would degenerate into chaos; without moral boundaries, our culture is rapidly degenerating into chaos. God sees a sharp division between His people and the unbelievers in this world. The members of the Corinthian church lived in a morally bankrupt culture, having a need to put protective boundaries around themselves and their families. Paul repeatedly warns them not to become entangled in relationships with unbelievers. The separation is to be spiritual; our boundaries are also spiritual, invisible, and self-imposed, but should be firm.