I always respect your opinion HiTech. However, for myself and my family, there will be no mingling of light with darkness in any way, shape or form. My precious grandchildren are too important for me to give them the impression that people who practice evil should be pitied and coddled. In my opinion, they need to be told in no uncertain terms that they must repent or perish, not keep making excuses to continue their perversion.
Scripture tells desciples to preach the truth and if it’s not received to shake the dust off our feet and move on. There can never be real fellowship between the light and dark. That’s a Liberal lie that many Christians have bought info. Even the Apostle Paul told us to have no fellowship with such as is being forced upon us by our government.
You will miss many opportunities to carry on a witness if you are short-fused black-and-white about it.
Jesus had to do things quick and dramatically if He was only going to be flourishing for 3 years. He did not have decades to spend on a long term spiritual rescue. However, we do. I think you’re the one making the excuses.
And scripture says “Snatch some from the flames and save them.” If you can’t think of anything better than to threaten everyone from Pharisee to adulteress with hellfire towards that end (not even Jesus did so with all audiences), your success rate will be very little. Those who DO show a godly compassion will overcome that darkness with their light. Do you think that light is feebler than darkness? When did you ever step into somewhere pitch dark with a candle and find that the light just vanished?
Visiting darkness with light is not mixing them, and it is blasphemy to call it so.