Louisville Reunion

The Louisville Reunion was hosted by the Warren and Bunting families in the back yard between their two homes. It started in 1975 and ended in 2011. I attended this annual 3 day tent meeting in September 2006 when I wanted to understand union and the oneness the son enjoyed with the Father as described in John 17.

I was invited to the meeting by Dee Dee Winter after she responded to my emails asking what union was. I has just left organized religion the previous year, 2005 after I asked a church pastor if he knew where the Kingdom of God was.

His response wasn’t what I had expected and I knew in a split second by his nebulous and theological response that he didn’t know himself. Then it dawned on me that if he didn’t know then it’s likely that his congregation wouldn’t know either. The Lord made it clear I should look elsewhere for answers because religion though well meaning is often the blind leading the blind.

This is when I found the Louisville reunion and got the invite from Dee. I went to the weekend and cam back a changed man.

I found folk who were welcoming and loving in a way I had not experienced before.

The tent meeting was not dominated by a single speaker all weekend, but was everyday folk who lived from this union experience sharing their stories, their testimonies and though there were some talks, all by different people, no one person dominated.

This was what I was hoping to find and I had found what I was looking for, union, Christ as us, the hope of glory (Col 1:27)

Knowing these facts intellectually was not the same as living them as I write this 18 years. The first book I read that the community recommended was

The Rest of The Gospel – When The Partial Gospel Has Worn You Out.

It’s a play on words of course, but its so true, organized religion tends to preach the predictable gospel, it does wear you out, but some of the truth is missing.

When was the last time the Pastor at your church revealed that God lives His life in you, AS YOU?

As He is so are we in this world – 1 John 4:17