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Linda,

No need for you to apologize about anything you wrote, especially in your terse remark about "potheads" or is the Politically Correct term now something like "partaker of alternative delights"? [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/laugh.gif" alt="laugh" title="laugh[/img] Aaron mentioned that this friend of his is a "heavy user of pot". No doubt his brain has been adversely affected and his ability to think clearly at any particular time depends upon when smoked his last joint. I am all too familiar with trying to witness or even speak about anything to those who are drunk, or should I say, (those who were enjoying life more than me) or under the influence of pot, drugs, etc. It's an exercise in futility 99.99% of the time. There is a time when you are actually no less guilty of offending God BY witnessing than you are by NOT witnessing:

Matthew 7:6 (KJV) "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you."

Mark 6:11 (KJV) "And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city."

We are to guard ourselves as well, in that we should not put ourselves into situations where we might be tempted to fall into sin; using it as an excuse for involving ourselves in a "good cause", etc. We are to honor Christ in all things, which at times actually means abstaining from what would otherwise be wholesome and good.

In His Grace,