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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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WhateverWorks · 36-40
I think it’s better to be the kind of Christian who lives by being loving example and follows Jesus’s lead by not judging others. When you live your values then your life becomes the evidence. Being judgmental and making them feel lousy will not bring them to Jesus or better their life in any way heh. This does go for family as well. You might have good intentions, but criticizing other regular people is not what Jesus would’ve wanted and it only alienates them.

If you find yourself ‘worried about being negatively influenced’ then it’s probably better you distance yourself from that circle and work on your own resolves, so that way you feel more solid when around people with different views.