Electric furnace. Are you talking an electric heating element? I didn't know there were any of those left. They might eat up more than 6kw.
If it's an oil or gas burner that requires electricity for the burner and blower or circulating pump, yes 6kw of running capacity would do it just fine and maybe keep your fridge cold and run a few lights. (Google on Generac or another generator manufacturer. Most of their sites you can find a table of typical electrical loads for various appliances.) Just watch the rating on your genset. Is 6000 the running wattage or the peak wattage?
As far as how to hook it up, I used to live in a neighborhood, where folks had cords rigged to their furnace allow them to hook just the furnace to a generator. But those were sloppy and dangerous hookups.
The safest way to do it is like MichaelNEIowa said, and have a transfer switch or lockout installed at your entrance panel. 6kw isn't real big as generators go, but that way you can pick and choose a balance between circuits you want to have available to rough it through an emergency, and what the generator can handle.
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