01.01. INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
C. A. Coates
You may be familiar with the name and the ministry of C. A. Coates – however it’s more than likely that there is personal information, of which you are unaware, in our Biography: C. A. Coates.
CAC’s Outlines – and other ministry and gospel tracts – have been a help to many who know nothing of * his lifelong commitment to the interests of Christ, * marked by a separation from the world and its ecclesiastical systems.
* Many of those who are aware choose to ignore it, glad to benefit from – and sometimes retail – his ministry, while retaining their own compromised positions.
Some of the first books I acquired, as a young believer in 1948, were CAC’s Outlines of Genesis and Revelation.
* I knew nothing of CAC but his ministry helped me greatly, then and since, and established me in the truth. o A few years later I made contact with brethren with whom CAC had been in fellowship.
* Some years later another brother – Michael Sawicki – came after a long search for those with whom CAC had been in fellowship. o He had been helped by some books by Mr. Coates loaned to him by another brother in the same ’open’ meeting – but o when he asked about those with whom CAC had walked, he was refused any information!
Affection for Christ has been "highly recommended" to MB by Phil Gasston of New Zealand as "a must-read for every believer". May it recall you to what CAC calls that
* "moment – never to be forgotten – when Christ risen comes before the soul, and the greatness of His victory, and the share we have in it, and the wonderful purposes of God for us – all secured by that victory – take possession of the heart". A Warning and an Appeal is a challenge to all of us who profess "to love our Lord Jesus Christ" – as to whether our love to Him is "in sincerity" as proved by our obedience.
Present Conditions in the Christian Profession is a cogent reply to some perennial questions. CAC’s answers are even more pertinent in these days when the conditions in the profession generally – and among the successors of the early brethren – are far, far, worse than in 1926.