There should be an out and out devotion to the work of the Lord. But it should never descend to a low level of pugnaciousness. It should always be tempered by the pure, lambent fire of God's love. We are living in a crooked and perverse generation. That is the trouble with the world today.
Men are bent.
God has a straight line of righteousness. But God's dear people, His blood washed people, are to be lights, are to be luminaries. They are to be straight and walk straight. They are to be cleansed by Christ and they are to be pure. They are to love purity and they are to deprecate the filth of this age and not look at it, nor listen to it, nor have any contact with it.