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    The Gospel Ship: Learning to Love God with All of Your Heart, Soul, Mind, and Strength
    The Gospel Ship: Learning to Love God with All of Your Heart, Soul, Mind, and Strength
    The Gospel Ship: Learning to Love God with All of Your Heart, Soul, Mind, and Strength
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    The Gospel Ship: Learning to Love God with All of Your Heart, Soul, Mind, and Strength

    By Juan Felipe

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    The Gospel Ship provides basic instructions in order to complete our journey here on earth. The greatest command we have been given is to love God with all we are. Prepare yourself for a voyage that will change your life, alter its course, and give you the tools to reach the celestial shore we have all set for our final destination. Smooth sailing!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateJan 9, 2012
    ISBN9781449734121
    The Gospel Ship: Learning to Love God with All of Your Heart, Soul, Mind, and Strength
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    Juan Felipe

    Juan Felipe is a pastor, author, teacher, and speaker of the Word. His message comes from years of ministry experience in churches here in the States and abroad. He has broken through denominational barriers with a passion for the Scriptures and by seeking God’s perfect will for his life. Since receiving this inspired word, Juan has still faced rough times but found his way through by putting God first and practicing the principles outlined in The Gospel Ship. He and his wife, Elizabeth, know that God was behind their meeting and has directed their path over the past couple of years as they have hit the mission field, pastored together, and written a book. They make their home in northern Alabama.

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      The Gospel Ship - Juan Felipe

      The

      Gospel Ship

      Learning to Love God with

      All of Your Heart, Soul, Mind,

      and Strength

      Juan Felipe

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      Copyright © 2012 Juan Felipe

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      ISBN: 978-1-4497-3413-8 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-3412-1 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2011962387

      Printed in the United States of America

      WestBow Press rev. date: 01/04/2012

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      The Gospel Ship

      The sailing vessel

      The First Commandment

      His Nature

      Our Nature

      ABCs

      Love God with All of Your Heart

      Love God with All of Your Soul

      Love God with All of Your Mind

      Love God with All of Your Strength

      The Whole Ship

      Acknowledgments

      To begin with, this work would not have been possible without the love and full support of my wife. Her enthusiasm inspired me to put this vision into book form so that it can be shared with others. Without her I would not have had the courage to see this project through. She continues to support my calling in ministry, teaching, and speaking, and has even motivated me to pursue developing this vision further into a series.

      I would like to thank my mother-in-law, Sandra, for her encouragement and assurance that this message was ready to be delivered and received.

      Friends are common place in this world, but some rise to the occasion. My friends and colleagues David Gould and Ken Bondurant are such men. They each opened their church families to participate in the development of this book as a tool for teaching. David also realized the simplistic nature that I desired to portray with his intimate drawings of The Ship.

      I want to also recognize my dear friends at St. James UMC for their desire to further the kingdom. They have cheered me on throughout this endeavor.

      It should go without saying, but it must be said… My gratitude cannot be contained for my home church, Florence 1st Assembly and Pastor Greg Woodall, for their endless love and support.

      The Gospel Ship

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      Learning to Love God With All of Your Heart, Soul, Mind, and Strength

      Explore the true meaning of the greatest command we have ever been given. Learn about His nature and how you can be transformed into the same nature. Embark on an expedition that will teach you the most critical elements of a sailing vessel and their purposes in keeping the vessel afloat and on course. See what you and a ship have in common. Understand the greatest command ever given. Be motivated to make lifelong changes and love God with everything you are.

      Preface

      Each of us has particular days that have helped shape our lives: graduations, marriage, the birth of a child, and, hopefully, the day we accepted Christ as our Savior. However, many of us have other days that stand out. Moments when we realized the mess our lives were in. You know, the day you realized that if you had been putting Him first you might not be facing the crisis you are dealing with. For me, that occurred in the summer of 1996. I had been a Christian for most of my life. My dad was a minister. I mean, I cut my teeth on church pews. During my adolescent years, I had even experienced personal miracles through prayer and faith. I married at eighteen, joined the US Navy, and shortly began a family. I took my family to church, and to most people I was an upstanding young man. To put it more appropriately, I had a lot of people fooled, even myself. After fifteen years of marriage, all the lies I had been living unfolded in one moment. The truth of who I was had been revealed, and my family would never be the same. Because I had been doing wrong for so long, I had begun to believe it was okay. I had formed habits that defined my very nature.

      It was then I realized I was faced with the possibility of losing my family. So I began to look at things differently. I knew I had to change. However, for some odd reason I

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