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    Leave the Cave

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    Leave the Cave

    Becoming a Man of Great Exploits, Leaving Passivity to Discover Your Purpose


    By Neil Kennedy


    Are you tired of feeling stuck in a rut? Are you ready to break free from passivity and discover your true purpose? If so, then this book is for you.


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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFivestarMan
    Release dateNov 15, 2023
    ISBN9798218326340
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      Leave the Cave - Neil Kennedy

      Neil Kennedy

      Leave the Cave

      Becoming a Man of Great Exploits, Moving From Passivity to Purpose

      Copyright © 2023 by Neil Kennedy

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise without written permission from the publisher. It is illegal to copy this book, post it to a website, or distribute it by any other means without permission.

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      Contents

      1. Manhood in Crisis

      2. The Heart of Manhood

      3. Prepared in the King’s Palace

      4. Delusional Dictators

      5. Safe in the Stronghold

      6. Gathering the Outcasts

      7. From Passivity to Purpose

      8. The Field of Contest

      9. Mentoring Men

      10. Mighty Men & Great Exploits

      1

      Manhood in Crisis

      I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills His purpose for me. - Psalm 57:2

      Manhood in crisis.

      We’re in deep trouble. I know.

      For over a decade, I have devoted my life and all my efforts to communicating with men — encouraging, engaging, and empowering them to resurrect Biblical/Authentic manhood. I can tell you that we’re facing unprecedented challenges. If I were to go statistical, you would become bored and skip over the data. If I were to create a laundry list of negatives, you would exhale with disgust and shrink back. Rather than that, let’s get to the point.

      You have an enemy. Your enemy hates you. I refer to your enemy as an anti-man spirit. He is a master manipulator. His art is mendacity. He is the father of lies. He will use all of his tricks, schemes, and devices to entrap you. His entire objective is to destroy mankind; to do so, he must first redefine manhood.

      The anti-man spirit is powerless against a man of God. You threaten his end-game. If you understand your purposes, pursue God’s original intent for Biblical/Authentic manhood, and walk in the directional intent of discipleship, you’re unstoppable.

      You’re a man.

      Your desire to step up to Biblical/Authentic manhood is evident. You wouldn’t be holding this book without the commitment to authenticity. To be counter-cultural is not for the faint of heart. It takes courage to be manly in today’s climate of misandry — a deep contempt, bias, and hatred of men.

      Manhood is facing an identity crisis. Our nemesis — the agent of our downfall — is redefining masculinity by moving the biological boundary stones of gender identities.

      It is hard to comprehend that even medical professionals are willingly surrendering their credibility to propagate the lie that a man can be a woman and a woman can be a man. This mendacious narrative has confused the average young man about his manhood, masculinity, and sexuality.

      If you don’t know WHO you are, you will never WHY you are.

      Inherent to identity is purpose.

      I hope that by the end of this book, you have an unwavering assurance of your manhood. You’ll need it.

      If you’re going to do anything significant for God, you will face intimidating fears, waves of doubt, clouds of depression, and suggestions of failure. You will experience slander, false accusations, betrayals, and lies. Family members and friends may mock you. Co-workers may scoff at you. Social platforms may block you. You will engage in a spiritual warfare like none other.

      However, greater is He that is within you than he that is in the world.

      I don’t want to assume that you’ve read my story in the other books that I’ve written. Let me briefly make you aware of where I am coming from and why this is an important message for me to tell men.

      My father exited my life when I was five years of age. My mother left him for her lover on Christmas day. Her betrayal broke his heart. Rather than fight to keep my siblings and me in his life, he abandoned the effort and devoted his life to his new wife and her five children.

      My father’s voice became muted. He would not be there to tell me about my heritage, nor would he be there to prophesy my future. Fatherlessness is a deep wound.

      Shortly after, my mother and her new husband sat me down and informed me that I would no longer be called by my birth name, Gary Neil Kennedy. I would be called Neil and assume her husband’s name, Roberson. I wasn’t adopted. The new name was assumed on me, which created confusion and an identity crisis in my life.

      Growing up, I never knew who I was. If you don’t know who you are, you will never understand why you are.

      My entire childhood and teenage years were marked with confusion. My father-wound festered for years.

      When the purpose is unknown, abuse is inevitable.

      — Dr. Myles Munroe

      A purpose is the why of manhood.

      Deep within the heart of a man are purposes. If you have read FIVESTARMAN, you know the five passions of Biblical/Authentic manhood. If not, go to FIVESTARMAN.COM, and I will deliver you a free copy. Let me say a few things about the why of manhood to lay the foundation for where we’re going with this book.

      The purpose in a man’s heart is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out. — Proverbs 20:5 ESV

      Many translations have neutered the word for man in this verse. There are three Hebrew words for man:

      âdam- human, mankind, human race, sometimes used as a genitive after adjectives.

      ĕnôwsh - mortal man, person, mankind, men (collective)

      îysh- man, male, husband, servant, champion, great man, citizen, warrior, manly-minded, valiant, priest, intelligent, noble quality.

      Proverbs 20:5 uses îysh, which means masculine male as opposed to a female. As noted above, îysh is a rich and descriptive word identifying manhood. I’ve categorized the purposes of man into five passions that empower a man in the pursuit of Biblical/Authentic manhood:

      Adventure

      Entrepreneur

      Gallant

      Faithful

      Philanthropic

      When a man understands these five passions of his purpose, his life takes on meaning and motivation like no other. I have seen men move from passivity to purpose when these passions are stirred up.

      For this reason, I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. — 2 Timothy 1:6

      Paul reminds his protege to stoke the embers of what was burning inside him. He says that we are saved and called to a holy life—not because of anything we have done but because of His purpose and grace (verse 9). We’re called to a religious life. That is not exclusive to mean that we are pure, but it also means that we are set apart for His purpose.

      Your purpose arouses violent opposition.

      As I mentioned earlier, because you’re a man in an anti-man culture, you’re facing a malevolent enemy. I can’t stress enough the antipathy that he has against you. You won’t be able to appease him. You can’t negotiate. You can’t ignore him. Unless you surrender your manhood to his totalitarian governance over your life, he will fight you tooth and nail — using all of his resources to wholly and utterly destroy you.

      You will never win the battle that you’re unwilling to confront.

      You were born in a time of war.

      Over the last decade, in my interactions with hundreds of thousands of men, I have concluded that most men are not engaged in the fight. They are retreating or even surrendering. It is sad. It’s cowardly.

      Every man will face a time in his life to either step up and be a man or shrink back into obscurity.

      I believe it is a cowardly generation that will not fight the foe that desires to dominate men, rape women, molest girls, and enslave boys. It’s evil.

      C.S. Lewis describes this evil in Mere Christianity — "One of

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