Wow. Sounds cheesy on the surface, but when you meditate on it for a while it becomes incredibly perceptive.
For those who are not familiar with T-Pain, he is a music artist who is known for his extensive use of auto-tune. According to Wikipedia (my trusty research source), auto-tune is used to "correct pitch in vocal and instrumental performances. It is used to disguise off-key inaccuracies and mistakes, and has allowed singers to perform perfectly tuned vocal tracks without needing to sing in tune."
D-Maub's point is that so many of today's sermons are "out of tune" with the truth of Scripture but "auto-tuned" to the modern, cultural ear. So you get two pretty common dynamics happening in modern pulpits.
First, many preachers use what I'll call "antics" to make up for the lack of substance in their sermons. Like an audience so used to auto-tune, the congregation is so tuned up to fluff and hype that they don't hear how out of tune the sermon is with God's Word.
Secondly, many preachers, in an effort to make the voice of God (i.e. the Scriptures) more "appealing", distort or downplay truths and characteristics of God that they deem to be harsh to the modern ear. What you end up with is a very sanitized, "auto-tuned", presentation of God that appeals to our modern cultural sensibilities and desires.
The problem is that the Scriptures do not present "off-key inaccuracies and mistakes" about God. The truths of Scripture are in tune with the reality of God. WE are the ones out of tune.
"For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear." (2 Timothy 4:3)
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So I think the key point here, is that it is vitally important that Christians are able to take up and carry their walk with God, meaning plugging into the word daily, praying, and being receptive to the Holy Spirit. This is more than just coming for snack time or a browse through the Bible when you go to church and hear sermons. Ultimately with obedience and humbleness, our ears will be renewed and refined by God's Word and will be aware to the slight inaccuracies that "auto-tune" makes. BTW, you can actually hear when auto-tune is enabled by an artist. It has a synthesized sound to it especially when pitch correction is done poorly.
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