They need tough love.
You can’t run them off...they are already off.
The best thing they need is a big fat question mark in their belief system.
They are the kings of compromise, which never saved anyone, rather condemns all that practice it.
The instructions below applies in any and all outreach ministry to those astray, even to Catholics.
2 Timothy 2:23 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, 25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; 26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
Galatians 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. 16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
2 Corinthians 12:19 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying. 20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
There has to come a time when He may lead us to let go and let God deal with them. I trust Him as my Good Shepherd to help me let go when that time comes.
Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; 6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; 7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. 8 This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men. 9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. 10 A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject; 11 Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
Indeed, every time we are in here, we have to trust Him to help us let go especially when He appears as the Bridegroom. We can't be dramatic like Sam Becket in Quantum Leap after winning that basketball game but yet finding out his brother still gets killed in Vietnam and then he reaches back to look at his brother, Tom, crying out his name in a last ditch attempt to warn him before leaping out. Our hearts may go out to our brothers and sisters, but they are the Lord and He is the Good Shepherd. He will recover the lost, even those left behind for He will lose nothing of all the Father has given them.
Luke 14:21 So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. 22 And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. 23 And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. 24 For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper. 25 And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them, 26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. 27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. 28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?
Jesus spoke of how the cares of this life wll serve as a snare for why those believers were making excuses not to come. Then He expunds on that to the multitude about the cost of discipleship about how we have to love Him more to leave our loved ones behind and trust Him to the keeping of their souls while they suffer the coming fire on the third of the earth and the coming great tribulation as a result for why they are going to have a mark of the beast system to buy and sell in order to survive in the new world order which will kill off all those not taking the mark.
So the warning below can only apply to believers before the rapture which has to take place before that calamity of fire and the coming great tribulation.
Luke 21:33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. 34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. 35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
So trust the Lord as your Good Shepherd to take you no matter what you are in the middle of in typing to reach the lost. Jesus is Lord.