How do you deal with someone close to you who is knowingly sinning?

If there is a group of people you associate with, say in your circle of closest friends or family even, and there is one or two of them who continue to do what you consider a sin, how do you act around them? Do you avoid them? Change your circle?

Say they commit adultery or theft or slander or something else. But bottom line is that what they do is a sin in your book. What is the right thing to do? If they already know it's wrong, but they live as if they aren't sinning (Because let's face it, many things that are deemed wrong in the past are suddenly accepted by society as okay. Keywords being accepted by society, not right.) , what is the right thing to do?

Funny thing about right and wrong. Society changes it continuously for convenience. Do you see it? I'm asking this to you, especially to those who know what WWJD stands for. What do you think would Jesus do?

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Thevy29 · 41-45, M

I don't judge people. Its not my place.

Besides Jesus was fond of drugs. Very fond of them in fact. And he was actually a pretty cool guy. I know everyone who claims to be Jesus is viewed as crazy and he only did so when he was off his meds. But he fed the hungry and looked after the sick and even did a bit of carpentry on the side... His birth name was Gustav. Or Gusta for short.
I know, some people may take offence to this. 'sticks and stones love', get over it. Perhaps he was crazy or perhaps he was the real deal. All I know he was a good guy.

Casheyane · 31-35, F

@Thevy29 I honestly find it fascinating how you phrased that whole thing up.

I'm having this guess than none of it is sarcasm. Or is it?
So I'll just ask. Source please? Curious where the drug and the Gustav came from. And yet the fascinating part is the last bit you said despite all those in the beginning. Huh.

Thevy29 · 41-45, M

@Casheyane Sorry, my writing tends to take on the style of whatever book I'm reading. 'Kidnapped' by Robert Lewis Stevenson. At the moment. Its an old book and quite hard to understand...

Gusta was a man in the town I grew up in. I guess schizophrenia ran in his family.

His Dad was a fisherman who had cleaned his fish from the side of his boat and didn't know there were kids swimming off the nearby Jetty. Shark came in and... The whole town blamed him and his family. He blamed himself worst of all. Snapped his mind with the grief. He was in the bank when some motorcyclists came in with their helmets on. I guess he got the wrong idea as to their intentions. Killed them both with his bare hands and ended up in prison.

Gusta was young boy when all that happened. It was a tough time for him. Got into drugs in a big way. His mind went not long after. Doctors medicine brought him back to his senses but he forgot sometimes to take it. Thought he was Jesus Christ reborn and went around town doing good deeds. The adults in town kept their kids away from him and his Dad who was back in town at the time my family moved in. They were just part of the fabric of life in town. My parents let us make our own minds up about them.

I was into religion at that time when I was younger. The good book said Jesus would come again. And here was a man claiming to be Jesus, who looked after all the elderly and sick in town. Who is to say he was or wasn't Jesus? That's the way my 9 year old brain worked.

Gusta passed away in 2010. And I still think of him fondly.