Planetshakers Insider

Taken from No Diggety: More on Mike Guglielmucci:

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Personally, I went to Planetshakers Sunday night to support a friend who is trying to deal with it all, and was fascinating to see how they responded. You could tell they were quite visibly shaken and shocked, and legitimately hurt and confused about what to make of it all.

They were, quite rightly, at pains to point out that nobody knew. The only bit I was a tad unimpressed by was the fact that they seemed to be trying to wash their hands of him in a sense, going to lengths to point out he hadn’t been in direct ministry with them for 18 months, which was still after all the lying all started.

As another commentor says on the Planetshakersinsider blog, they raised him up, and they should be keeping him to account. But, no human system will ever be perfect at catching those that lie, and unfortunately for them and us, they stuffed up this one. They’re not the first, and won’t be the last.

The Church is just like any other organisation with normal human beings in it, and I for one don’t want to be standing in my glass house throwing stones at them.

It seems that other people saw the Planetshakers response in similar ways.

Obviously Pastor Russell Evans was shaken, but the official line was to wash their hands of Mike Guglielmucci – despite raising him up, and being the place where he began his lie.

It’s not to attack Planetshakers that I being this to light, and no man is above sinfulness, but if we don’t at least learn from our mistakes – how can we prevent them from happening again?

What happened with Mike was a big mistake – it never should have happened – and it’s a prominent reminder by God to keep ourselves and others accountable.