Estaban Muertos

En cuanto a ustedes, estaban muertos en sus transgresiones y pecados, en los que acostumbraban vivir cuando seguian los caminos de este mundo y del gobernante del reino del aire, el espiritu que ahora actua en los que son desobedientes.

Or, should I say,...

As for you (JAM), you were dead in your transgressions and sin, in which you (JAM) used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.

Extracted from Ephesians 2.

I guess this demonstrates that we ought not make excuse for not having an ability to associate with lost, or not having any frame of reference or anything to start from...