About Rob Kennedy

What is the churches vocation? What is the church to be and to do?In this book R. P. Kennedy sets out to answer those questions by looking at the ascension gifts found in Ephesians 4:11-13, showing that the church is to be Apostolic, Prophetic, Evangelistic, Shepherding and Teaching. And when she embraces these gifts given to her from Jesus she will be Christ Made Flesh, God’s Witness to the World.

Out of the reformation emerged five doctrines that would shape the protestant church for centuries. These five doctrines are: 1.Sola Scriptura - Scripture Alone 2.Solus Christus - Christ Alone 3.Sola Gratia - Grace Alone 4.Sola Fide - Faith Alone 5.Soli Deo Gloria - The Glory of God Alone. As these five doctrines counterattacked the perverse distortions of biblical truth in the reformer’s day, they can do the same for ours. These pillars of our faith establish foundational truths that if rejected, will result in catastrophic peril to this generation, and sadly, even more so to the generations to come. R. P. Kennedy looks into the future and is driven by the Spirit to take up the Sword the Spirit would wield in one hand, even as he raises a trowel in the other. Wading through that which would bring conflict and stagnation rather than confluence and continuation, he preaches with that sword, prophesies with it, to the four winds of the earth in his generation.

Will the church have a Revival, a Reformation, or will it have a Revolution—perhaps all three are needed? Churches all over America casually pray for revival. They sing about it, talk about it, blog about it, write books about it, preach sermons about it, yet, the air of the church seems helplessly thin. For a good deal of western Christendom, revival is a novel idea but not a perceivable reality. The cry for revival has never been greater—the demand for its powerful effects has never been more needed. Yet, the requirements for revival have never been so neglected. Every Spirit-filled believer knows in their gut something is coming, that things cannot remain as they are for the American Church. That we have somehow missed what we are supposed to be and do. If there is an ounce of prophetic nature left in the American church, she will anticipate and prepare for what is ahead.