It does seem crazy, doesn’t it, that the church should not defend itself by every means possible in the face of the terrible threats coming at it from every side. What madness brought this Gideon into the world? But all this is only the foolishness of the Christian faith itself; that is what this story is about. It’s not about the particular command that was given; it’s not that which is valid for all the ages, but rather the foolishness, the stumbling block of living faith, which confesses, “With might of ours can naught be done, soon were our lost effected
