Radically Real

A Little More Homework
My son Chris and I are really into musical theater. Recently Chris bought the soundtrack to Jason Robert Brown's Musical 13. I love the music for this show especially the song in the video above, A LIttle More Homework. It's a song sung by a 13 year old boy walking into manhood and confessing that he will do his very best, but he still has a lot to learn. The lyrics are very honest and very poignant and while I'm a long way past 13, I still feel like this song applies to me.

I know this song was not written for the church and I don't want to over spiritualize it, but every time I hear this song, I think if I could sing I would sing this song to the church, cause I think we all need it. We don't always do the best job representing the love of God to the world around us. I think part of it at least is because we are dishonest. We feel as it we have to act as we've arrived and that we have it all together. My confession is as a pastor, I don't have it all together, I'm not all the way there, and I really wonder what would happen if we in the church could make this same admission and mean it from our hearts. We're supposed to be growing into the fullness of Christ becoming more and more like Him each day, but even if no one else will admit it, I will, on my best day, I have a long way to go. We are in this world to love people and share the love of God, and there are days where I fall terribly short of that goal. Maybe we need to be honest about that, come along side others and say, God loves you and I'm trying to too. Let's come along side each other, try and live this thing out and just concede we all have a little more homework to do.