Michael Guglielmucci talks about worshipping God and dealing with "cancer" on new Hillsong DVD

You heard right. In August 5th, Hillsong released their 17th album "Hillsong Live: This Is Our God" and included on the DVD is a documentary that includes a fairly lengthy segment of Michael Guglielmucci talking about his cancer and worship music.

Of course, we know now that he never had cancer and was faking it to cover an addiction to porn that he's been dealing with for 16 years.

I'm a little behind on the stack of review material, and honestly, I'm so sick of these corporate worship event CDs that I toss them all into a pile and forget about them. But I found the DVD last night and watched the documentary "In Every Season" this morning.

I tried to find a video clip of Guglielmucci's segment on YouTube, and I'm still searching, but in the meantime I wanted you to hear his "story," in his own words. I transcribed 7 minutes of him speaking, at which time the story kind of moves to another artist; there maybe more later on the 20 minute video but honestly, I was so ready to barf I couldn't do any more.

I rarely get angry and I try hard to be fair, but as I listened to the blasphemy that spewed from his mouth during this video clip I was literally nauseated and could feel my blood boiling. I also had a million questions, starting with "What happens to all of those people in the audience, tears streaming down their faces and their hands held high? Was God there? Could God be there in the midst of such a lie? Could God anoint a bold-faced liar and manipulator?"

I'm sorry - forgive me for ranting like that. But when you read his words, knowing it was all a big lie, you may understand why it makes me so ... disgusted.

And just so you know, I have contacted the label to see if anyone wants to comment on the story. My heart just breaks for all of those people who were taken in by this fraud. And seeing him tell the story on video, I can understand how at least friends and music colleagues might have fallen for it. He's so convincing I think he believes it himself. (And again, where does someone who doesn't need it get an oxygen machine ...)

So here it is - about 7 mins of Michael Guglielmucci's own words:

"It was a pretty crazy day. I went to the hospital expecting to have some tests and got the news that I had cancer. And quite an aggressive form of cancer.

"I just went home. I knew I had to go home, I just had to get alone with God, I suppose. I walked into my studio at home and for some reason pressed record, which was a good thing, just set up a microphone. I just sat at a piano and began to worship. I didn't sit down to write the verses and then the chorus, like I just sang that song from start to finish. Like, I was crying and I sort of finished and I realized that God had given me an incredible gift and I knew that song was going to be my strength.

"When you hear you're gonna die or you know this is terminal, you get your affairs in order. There's not a lot you can do. What can I do to make this better? There's not much. I remember the night before my second [load?] of treatment. I put on this gospel medley about the blood, and there's this bunch of American artists, these different artists, that were singing about the blood of Jesus and the power in the blood of Jesus and healing in the blood of Jesus.

"And I remember sitting in my room and just beginning to worship. It's amazing that worship can lift you from where you are and take you to somewhere, it takes you to a higher place, you know, when you begin to magnify God and begin to worship God and choose what you magnify, you know. Because you could quite easily make the situation bigger than it actually is. But it's powerful when you can just get the name of Jesus and just lift God up, higher, bigger, stronger, cuz that's what he is. But when you begin to see him for that and you begin to worship him, it's amazing what you can get through. I put worship in the house all the time, and it was that, that I believe, that got me through. You know, worship every day. We'd wake up and put it on, when I'm going to sleep we'd put it on. There's not much else I could do but worship and I'm still here.

"Album recording week was a bit tough. I had a rough week, got some pretty negative results back and the doctors weren't gonna let me do it, and saying I had to use this oxygen machine because I wasn't getting enough oxygen and all sorts of things. But it was a tough week but I made a decision this was what I was going to do. I know that this was something God wanted us to do. It was gonna bless people. I came with a great expectancy as well that God was gonna do something amazing not only in my life but in the lives of other people.

"[Like I was side?] of the stage, about to come on to read the Scripture. I was in agony, like I was in agony I was in so much pain. So I got up and the moment I hit the, like walked onto the stairs it was literally like someone walked up behind me and put a jacket on me. I literally felt like someone had just put something on me. And it was, what I believe, God's anointing and enabling to do what I had to do. And I walked up there with my oxygen machine and Bible and got to the mic and proclaimed the promises of God out of Isaiah.

"It was amazing. I cannot explain what I was feeling. I was buzzing, it was such an anointing in that place. I remember looking over at Joel and smiling and he smiled back at me and I know he was feeling what I was feeling.

"At times it was hard to see cuz I was watching people with tears streaming down their faces, singing, and I knew that God was doing something and I knew that God was being faithful to what he promised, you know. That he was actually moving in people's lives at that moment, that he was using all of us as musicians. And I was watching and I know it's not just limited to what happened in that room that night, but the same thing can happen when people play the album, when they hear these moments and the songs and they hear God lifted and God glorified through this worship. That his power's gonna fill their car and their house and something's gonna take place. And to know that and to be standing there and worshipping, knowing all of that it's so hard, it's a moment I'll never forget."


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