Guglielmucci’s Wife:  I’m Gonna Make This Work

Orginally published on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 6:13 AM
by Todd Rhoades

There's been much written about Pastor Michael Guglielmucci and his recent admission that his terminal illness was fake, and that it was a lie that perpetuated out of him trying to hide his long-time addiction to pornography. I think my friend, Brad Lomenick, put it as well as anyone when he wrote, "Michael needs us as the body of Christ now more than ever. Just ask all the other people of influence we’ve left in the ditch. He’s battling with sin, the same sin that we all battle with every day. Whether lust, or lying, or pride, or adultery, or deceit, or slander. There by the grace of God go I."

But someone who may need our prayers as much as Michael (just as much, if not more) would be his wife, Amanda. Can you imagine facing your wife after you faked a terminal illness for two years, and on top of that, admitted to a long-time habit of pornography. I know I can't. But it appears that wife Amanda is supporting and standing by her husband. In an interview with an Australian newspaper, she insists that he is a good man, who was trapped by lies that had spiralled out of control...

“I know he’s not an evil man, there’s not evil in his heart,” she said.

Mrs Guglielmucci, who is staying in their Sydney home while Michael is with his family in Adelaide’s southern suburbs, said she would try to salvage her marriage.

“I know that I love him, I know that much,” she said.

“We’re just not going to rush anything, we’re gonna walk through the process, however slowly it needs to happen, in order for the healing and restoration to be complete and then we’ll go from there.”

She has turned to a counsellor to help cope with her husband’s massive deception, which has shocked not only his family’s church, Edge Church International, but the world-wide Christian movement.

“I’m actually seeking professional counselling myself. I need to be able to unravel a lot of emotion that’s bombarding me at the moment, I owe it to myself to work through that properly, and to him,” she said.

“I had questions after the shock of it all, but my initial thoughts after hearing that were a sense of sorrow for the church and that a lot of people were going to be hurt because of it.”

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