I gave you a transcript today of 7 minutes of Michael Guglielmucci from the Hillsong DVD. This video clip offers a good, overall summary of the story, along with Guglielmucci talking in an exclusive interview. The clips of him with the oxygen tubes in his nose, as well as him talking about getting his cancer diagnosis, are from the Hillsong video.
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A very, very disturbed individual. And I am not at all convinced he yet truly grasps (or wants yet to truly understand) all that he has done. Forget about asking where God was in all this - the more relevant question is where was God in Michael's mind, heart and soul, and the answer can only be 'very far away' or 'nowhere at all'. How else could he in any way conceive and repeat the process of lying to people in their faith, capitalising on such a heart-wrenching severe supposed illness to aid that lie, and taking such obvious pleasure from it (and, yes, he clearly did take pleasure from it)?! It is one thing to live a double life, quite another to involve family, friends, vulnerable people and so many others around the world so blatantly and directly in that lie.
Yes, we are all broken, one way and/or another. But that should never stop us from clearly saying what is wrong (where it is in fact so clear), and sometimes monstrously wrong. In this circumstance, I feel too many fellow Christians have tried to take the edge off what has happened by stating what we all obviously feel - that none of us should judge and that we should support a broken man. Just as important, we must say to both the world and to each other that it was inexcusable, whilst at the same stating that he is clearly disturbed (if we believe he is so effected). Attempts (even good meaning attempts) aimed at minimising the action leads to loss of credibility both within the world and within our faith. There is wrong in the world, and this is unambiguously and monstrously wrong (however Michael wishes to portray himself and his addiction). May God heal Michael and his suffering family, and the churches involved, and all that believed and were grossly hurt by these painfully ongoing lies.
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