Gerald Coates Pioneer: A Biography

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But on a wider level, Gerald’s spiritual discernment was more questionable. W hile travelling in New Zealand in 1991, he predicted a major imminent earthquake in that nation. Sometime later, in April 1995, he publicly prophesied the coming of revival to Westminster Chapel. Neither prophecy came to pass. Charismatic deception

Turner, Max “Ecclesiology in the Major ‘Apostolic’ Restorationist Churches in the United Kingdom” Vox Evangelica 19 (1989) 83-108

In fact Westminster Chapel actually declined and numbers dwindled in the months andyears that followed Coates' prophecy.Thisparticular prophecy was one of a number of false propheciesmade by Gerald Coates. I was sent by Christian friends a copy of an audio tape of a talk which was given to Gerald Coates and workers in his Pioneer Team by Roger Ellis (Chichester). To refresh minds Gerald Coates is one of three people who started the Marches for Jesus. He also fully endorsed the ministry of Rodney Howard Browne one of the ‘key players’ in the ‘Toronto blessing’ fiasco describing him as ‘a breath of fresh air’ and he referred to the heretical late Malcolm Muggeridge (for details of his heresies see ‘News From The Front’ December 1995) as a ‘major prophet.’

Alongside Terry Virgo, Roger Forster and John Noble 1, Gerald was one of the most prominent ‘house church’ leaders of the 1970s, each going on to form institutions that became small denominations in their own right. Pioneer Network has become an international concern.It was from here on the various anniversaries connected with his mother, such as birthdays and anniversaries of her death, he would play classical music so loud it could easily be heard by his few neighbours. He played other music such as Lucian Pavarotti in particular, which would go bursting through the lower valley and even echoing on the higher surrounding ground.