) Gideon is the central character in this particular ‘ever-decreasing circle’. He lived in one of the most dispiriting times God’s people had experienced; but his life was transformed when he met with God. He became a man who made a difference! There was nothing particularly special about Gideon; he was an ordinary young man, from an inconsequential family. And he was living through a traumatic period in Israel’s history, doing what he could to survive. Gideon’s home town, Ophrah,