Dear Eileen
87 years has given me some valuable experience that may be helpful if you'll let me share it. Now I'm glad you accepted, so I'll tell you a true story nearer home anyway.
My brother and his circle of friends had pads of their own and used to spend their hard earned money on partying. Every Saturday evening one of the lads and lasses in turn had to use their pad for the party and each one was obliged to bring a bottle of undiluted hard stuff. This to the annoyance of the neighbours became a regular Saturday night get together until, that is, brother Bernie got the call. He first joined the JWs and was with them for a few months but didn't like so he fell from the frying pan into the fire and joined the A.O.G a Pentecostal movement.
The partying carried on for quite sometime after, then, low and behold one Saturday evening Bernie turns up with a Book in a black leather case under his arm and no bottle. To everyones horror the party seemed to die before it had started each one glancing at the other wondering what on earth was happening, till someone had the courage to ask what that little Book was and no bottle. That was the moment when the true Pentecostal spirit was unleashed and they got the full blast of the Babylonian trash and lies. But it never stopped there, like Billy Graham's Crusades slowly but surely all the party goers became Pentecostals and brother Bernie was elevated to an elder, whether it was due to the number of conversions or not I don't know, but it was the death of the partying and peace returned for the neighbourhood.
What all that has to do with your case, Eileen, I've no idea but there has to be a lesson to be learned from some of it somewhere such as going headlong into the enemy and getting them totally confused to the extent that they jump into your camp and become members of the Body of Christ, without preaching just pure shock. The shock treatment they call it. Hope it helps, it didn't do me much good but there again I wasn't a member of that elite group of party goers, was I?
God bless you sister in our joint walk in Christ.
Love in Christ Jesus.
Roy UK