Why family works

I have often wondered why the church familys that I have been part of always seem to come up short with what my real family is like. Yes we have our problems and there are those that do not know the Lord but why do we continue to get together? Invite each other to family gatherings and out of all our faults we still love each other. There is a bond that happens in a family that just doesn't seem explainable to me. In a modern day church in America, you might have something that in a way reflects a family but as soon as something turns somebody off. Their gone. Why stay at one church when there is hundreds more to be part of. If the pastor says something wrong at one church, then you can just go to another. Countless families end up "church hopping" going from one to another. In the early church, they called each other brothers and sisters. I would think there was a reason why they called each other that. Maybe it was to continually remind themselves that no matter what happened between each other they were still family. We have gotten away from that. How many people in a church do you hear say brother, so and so or sister, so and so. Very few. My wife and I have started to call our friends that come into the coffee house (brothers and sisters). It seems to fit. We don't go to the church they do but who cares. They share the same Lord and the same Father. It has been part of the journey, to realise that you are part of a family and that you can't just throw away brothers and sisters, even though you might disagree with them. Today I am surounded by family both in the Lord and also family in marriage. Thank you Jesus!