Our modern generation has more questions and fewer answers. The doubt of our age has its own peculiar pain. Our modern age is experiencing one of the sporadic moods of the Bible. Modern man today often feels that God has abandoned him. God is like a captain who has forsaken his ship with its crew and passengers, leaving them to manage the best they can upon the high seas.
Many people feel that way in our time.
Why do we suffer for so long. The preacher, refusing to live a sheltered life and exposing himself to his world, must feel its doubt with its pain . Not to feel this pain means he has insulated himself from a kind of reality that marks his world. He may have once suffered from this kind of doubt, but having worked through to a positive faith, he will never forget its pain. The 21st century preacher must preach to his age, which means he must address an age of doubt.