Christianity has always had its doubters. Sometimes it comes in open and public terms. Perhaps more often, despite our attempts at accurate measurements, are the doubters who speak only to intimate friends or not at all. When you and I doubt we are not alone. In the ancient world, our precious faith made little sense to most Jews or Gentiles.

Some great souls, even saints, have been born out of times of skepticism. We have always had our "doubting Thomases." Read the autobiographies and biographies of those stalwarts in church history. When the truth is fully uncovered, we discover some thoroughgoing doubters!

Well, how about you and me? In honesty and sincerity, we admit the message of Christ did not and does not always convince us. It is therapeutic and, perhaps above all, admirable to…