I can t assume that Mr. Nice Guy really has it all together. He may be hurting deeply inside. There are longings that are often hidden in the people around us, buried because of long practice at hiding what they really feel. But my friendship, an openness, a caring attitude, may in time bring to the surface what a person deeply longs to have. Jesus died for sinners, and sinners are not just people who do terrible things.
Sin is a state, a condition.
It may be worked out in wicked acts, or it may not be, but the condition of sin doesn t change until it is changed by the grace of God. I can t assume that the person doesn t really care about God. There is a restlessness, a longing, a space in the soul that God puts in every person. We were made for God. God breathed into us and made us living souls.