How plainly should the gospel be explained so someone knows what it takes to gain heaven?
The gospel should be explained so simply that a six-year-old can understand it, using plain language that leaves no doubt about what it takes to gain heaven. High-sounding intellectual statements are useless if people don't understand. The Word of God is simple.
Les teaches that the gospel must be kept so simple that a six-year-old can understand it. He asks what good high-sounding, intellectual, perfectly formed statements do if people don't know what you're talking about, because the Word of God is simple. He explained the gospel to a man who had never heard it, putting it in such simple language that the man left with no doubt about what it would take to gain heaven. Les laid it out as plain and simple as it can be laid out. The man said, 'I've never heard that before,' and Les notes most people don't. He then turns to the text's verse 10 about many kinds of voices in the world and illustrates communication in the animal kingdom—quail whistling when a covey is busted, and a wild turkey clucking to her poults—to show those sounds are not gibberish.