You wrote: >>I know so many who are desperately seeking a true manifestation of Christ on the earth. A place where the tribes gather and are formed into one holy nation.<<

First, in reference to the tribes gathering and one holy nation. It sounds like you’re trying to gather everyone from everywhere in one place. People like to say that about us, but it’s not true. You’re not meaning that, right?

Second, on the “so many who are desperately seeking,” do you have a different definition of desperately seeking than I do or are there a lot of people you haven’t told me about?

Who’s desperately seeking? We’ve talked to several people who are almost desperately seeking. They’ve told us about hundreds and hundreds who love to talk about desperately seeking, but who really aren’t seeking anything.

If there are many who are desperately seeking, then tell them to drop everything and come to where you are. Or tell them to drop everything and go somewhere where you’ll go with them. If they’re really desperately seeking, then when they gather Christ will meet them because he would never ignore such a gathering of people.

We wouldn’t, either. We’d be thrilled to come help with that.

However, …

I would be SHOCKED–thrilled and overjoyed, but shocked and stunned–to find out that there are many people desperately seeking a true manifestation of Christ in the United States. That would be awesome, and I’d love to help with it.

Experience says, though, that most people who say that many are desperately seeking find out that those same many desperately run as soon as something is actually being done rather than talked about.

Please tell me that’s not so! Let’s tell the desperate to drop everything and do something. “Many” will certainly be enough!

Well, almost always. I respond to you as much as I do to anyone else in or out of the village.

However, on the general point, I don’t agree that RCV isolates itself from an “us” out there that’s looking to us for inspiration. To me the people who are looking to us for inspiration are:

1.) a group of brothers and sisters in Atlanta

2.) George in Nakuru and Peter in Kenya

3.) Jason Fitzpatrick in Mexico

4.) A lady starting a community in Virginia who’s coming to visit next month

5.) you

Since the others are ones we see face to face, I know we’re not isolated from them.

If you’ll tell me (privately!) whom you’re talking about, I’ll find out why they don’t respond.

It seems impossible to me to believe that Noah isn’t talking to you. He even talks to people whose emails I myself have marked as spam and never see.

The list I gave above is is short, but that’s because I’m not including friends like the huge house church that doesn’t have a name in Memphis, David Servant, Pastor Daniel, some local churches and numerous others. Those are friends, but I don’t think they look to us for inspiration.

That’s enough for this comment. One more to make …

Why? simply because we are not the body. There are not many places like RCV out here in the wasteland of Americanized christianity. The only thing available for the majority of us who wish to give our lives is that which is the norm today. Sad, very sad but true.
I know so many who are desperately seeking a true manifestation of Christ on the earth. A place where the tribes gather and are formed into one holy nation.
But there is no revelation on this and those who try to teach it or seek it are ignored or relegated to the bin of the wierd or fanatical.
Shammah, I love you and my dear ones at RCV with all my heart (I think on all of you all the time)
My only hope is that God will have a people from every race, nation, tribe and tongue. I raise up that point because at times RCV seems to isolate itself from those of us out here that look to you guys for inspiration, vision, example, direction and leadership. In my case, I hope that I have not offended anyone there but again I tell you this with true sorrow in my heart – no one from RCV responds to me in any way or form (other than you). I have sent emails, left voice messages, tried to get hooked up on facebook and no one responds!
So, I repeat the words of the song. “… why aren’t his arms reaching? Why aren’t his hands healing?

I honestly want to know