Review of Kendall's Unashamed to Bear His Name

I appreciate Kendall's emphasis on accepting the stigma of the gospel. While Christianity is a rational intelligent and loving faith, it is also exclusive and radical. It is offensive unless God softens our heart so that you respond to it as demanding your humbly throwing yourself at the foot of the cross for forgiveness and transformation followed by a changed life of service to God. We are to be actively sharing our faith and it will be embarrassing at times to do so. But of course we should not be any more offensive than is necessary and we can--more so than I believe Kendall stresses--appeal to the rational and yearning part of man as well as acknowledging that there are everlasting consequences for sin--a real hell--that should be fearful to us and cause us to turn to God to escape the wrath to come. As for Kendall's take on embracing unusual manifestations of the Spirit though they may be scandalous, I agree we may be too quick to discount that which we feel uncomfortable with, particularly those who are less emotional and more cerebral. However, I also feel this experiential approach is very suspect to human involvement and taint, which to his credit Kendall acknowledges, though not so much as I think he should. How is God glorified by people laughing uncontrollably? or barking like dogs? Must we really--as K. suggests--accept this kind of thing because even if it's bad, there's no way to separate the good from the bad in it? If so, why not? If so, how much bad must we embrace? Did Christ ever tell us we must do such a thing--accept bad for the sake of good? Is it really worth it?
I received this book from Book Sneeze in order to review it.