Extended Family & Joy! Enough to Go Around

I saw this WalMart/Coke commercial as a short ad before a movie. I just love the theme. It shows, for me at least, a notion of family and community in our modern context. Fractured families, workplace associations, online friends, quirky connections. A lot of people in the church see a lot of bad stuff in modern relational trends; for them the gold standard for community was the 1950s. No doubt much has been lost. But in this clip I see a more organic, funky, tolerant, and inclusive kind of community. Things have been lost over time, but some things have been gained as well.

If the church is to be anything it is to be extended family with more than enough joy to go around.