What is the problem with the way many theologians talk?
Many theologians speak in such complicated, elevated language that they talk above the heads of average people, making it hard to understand or extract the truth. Their words become unclear and confusing rather than plainly communicating the message, so ordinary listeners cannot grasp what is being said.
Les explains that this problem exists across the whole spectrum: men become so theological, or are such theologians, that they talk above the heads of the average individual. He illustrates it by recalling a book by a deep theologian whose complicated language forced him to read it over and over just to dig any truth out of it. When he read a paragraph to his wife, she did not know what the author was saying; only when he restated it in plain, ordinary layman's language did she understand. This matches the trumpet analogy: if the sound is unclear, people are left confused and do not know what to do.