Mark Sayers has some good thoughts on the whole Mike Guglielmucci scandal...
Strangely not long ago I watched a re-run of Seinfeld where Jerry and George’s friend Gary pretends to have Cancer. When I watched the episode, I thought to myself “Who would pretend to have cancer?’ It seemed implausible, it seemed too bad taste†Little did I know that such an episode would break into real life.
When things like this happen it is important to react in compassion and grace and I encourage you to read Mark Conner’s response to the situation here. However when situations like this occur we must also turn bad into good by asking what do we need to learn from this, we must as the people of God ask ‘Is there something that God might be teaching us here?’.
On one level this is a very personal sin, yet as I have prayed and meditated on this there is also a systematic and cultural failure occurring here. There are too many cultural idols in this sad tale to leave unnamed. My fear is that this kind of ’success at all cost’s’ moral failure, could be a kind of new fall that other young leaders may face (albiet less publically) if left unwarned. The world into which young leaders are emerging contains a number of traps which we must be aware of.
What can we learn from the Mike Guglielmucci scandal? « Mark Sayers
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