So, the point here is simply that we live with the tensions of what love
really requires of us. What does a true friend really do? A true friend
is full of good deeds and returns good for evil, and a true friend
abstains from sinful behavior and declares the excellencies of Christ.
And both of these strategies are necessary. Neither is guaranteed to win
over the unbeliever. That is what we long for. That is what we pray
for. But we don’t shrink back from our good deeds. And we don’t shrink
back from lives of purity and holiness and verbal declarations of the
excellencies of Christ. We leave the outcome and the fruit to God in
Christ by the Spirit. - John Piper
http://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/should-i-confront-sin-in-my-non-christian-friends
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