The cross, that is, is not quiescent or dead. The cross is itself in the first instance the attack of God on the old sinner and the sinner’s theology. The cross is the doing of God to us. But that same cross itself, and only the cross, at the same time opens a new and unheard-of possibility over against the sinner’s old self and its theology. That means that a theology of the cross is inevitably quite polemical. It constantly seeks to uncover and expose the ways in which sinners hide the perfidy behind pious facades. The delicate thing about it is that it attacks the best we have to offer, not the worst…The preacher-theologian must know this and learn how to use the word of the cross in that combat.
Gerhard Forde, On Being a Theologian of the Cross
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