My new friend Vince Antonucci spoke yesterday about being grace wholesalers. Vince is one hundred percent high octane adrenaline. Vince lives and breathes a compassion to reach lost people. And by the way, the dude is also flat out funny. What a riot.
Vince planted Forefront Church about nine years ago and he's reaching tons of lost people who are far from God and bringing them into closer proximity with the God who loves them.
Grace is what we get when we don't deserve it. A wholesaler makes huge amounts of products available to the market. Vince says we need to wholesale God's grace to a lost and hurting world.
How to be a grace wholesaler:
1) Prayer. Ask Jesus everyday for opportunities to interact with someone who needs God's grace.
2) Platform. Build a relationship with lost people. Trust always proceeds truth.
3) Process. It takes time to get involved with people who need God's grace.
4) Patience. Remember that it is the patience of God that leads to repentance.
5) Pain. Become a wounded healer.
I can honestly say I feel completely inspired to keep PCC passionate about reaching the lost. God help us from becoming some spiritual country club for casual Christians.
