Slicing up Gods word to our liking

There is a large segment of modern Christianity that will take certain verses and mount them on their walls. They get applied without context and balance and Doug Wilson spells it out perfectly. Like Wilson says, no one can blaspheme like an Evangelical can. Of course you can take any part of the gospel and narrow it, till its truth gets lost.

Mercy and No Mercy
One of the great dangers confronting those who would give themselves to mercy ministry is that of forgetting the antithesis. Biblical wisdom always remembers the antithesis, and places it where God has placed it. Forgetting the antithesis frequently consists of selecting a biblical virtue, absolutizing it, and using it to contradict or "balance" other biblical virtues. This is the basic (and very serious) error of the pacifist. The problem is not what he affirms so much, but rather what he denies....