Ian
Rees’s report in Believer’s Magazine, Jan. 2014
". It is over 22 months since Ian Rees
began meetings at Tenby on Sunday
evenings and now on
average around 27 people gather in the
community centre.
He is seeking guidance about starting
to teach them [has he never read in the Gospels of the Great commission to
teach all nations?-ed ]
local church truth after having gone
through the book of
Genesis, or to start on another book.
[No Gospel?] There has been a very
evident change in the lives of several
unbelievers during
the last few months, and although they
have not yet publicly
confessed faith in Christ the change
in attitude shows a
work of God has begun in them. Rebecca
is involved in
helping a number of the ladies who
have health issues and
is able to take them to hospital
appointments and such
like. They are praying about starting
a Sunday School in
Tenby as the community centre is now
available for hire
all day on Sundays, and are wondering
about starting an
evening meeting during the week. Ian
has also been asked
to preach in Haverfordwest on a weekly
basis. They would
value prayer for wisdom regarding the
next steps in each of
these aspects of their work."
Shall we hear of another church being
planted, without conversions, baptism, obedience, etc?- RS
The Apostle’s Creed as posted on Ian
Rees’s Blog. He wrote: We believe, teach and try to live by these
historic doctrines of the Christian faith.
I BELIEVE in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven
and earth:
And in Jesus Christ his only Son, our
Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the virgin
Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and
buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the
dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God
the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the
dead.
I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy
catholic church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of
sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen
We believe that sinners
are spiritually dead to God, unable to see, know or hear Him without His
intervention, and unable to earn God’s favour or to save themselves; that any
work of God in the heart of a sinner is a work of grace that comes entirely and
completely from the sovereign will and choice of God; and that though God is
sovereign in choosing to work in and with sinners, all are ultimately held
responsible for their own lives and decisions. -I Rees
Thus I Rees reveals himself to be a Calvinist, preferring Romish utterances against the Scriptures
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Also in this issue of BM,
In Question and Answer Box:
In the passage in Matthew
18.15-17,do we assume that
the offender and the offended
are in the same
assembly? What is the position
if they are not?
Answer:" ….One possible course of action would
be for the elders of the assembly
in which the offended brother is in
fellowship to make contact with the
overseers of the church with which the
offending brother is associated and to
discuss, with all the facts before them,
how the matter can be best resolved."
David E West
This appears to be a movement towards a united oversight. The
questioner “assumes” the Lord’s words to be of insufficient help and to lack
finality.
Waymarks is
aware of assemblies who have punished the offended person for raising a complaint.