I play the popular praise chorus "Healer" all the time in my car. I can't get the tune out of my head. You may know the words:

"I believe You're my healer

I believe You are all I need

I believe You're my portion

I believe You're more than enough for me

Jesus You're all I need."

Thousands of churches have been singing the popular worship chorus since Australian youth pastor Michael Guglielmucci wrote it in 2008. The Aussie worship band Hillsong United has made it a global anthem, and it's especially popular among people battling illness. But the song took on a darker meaning when Guglielmucci admitted it was part of an elaborate hoax he created.

Christians around the world felt shocked and betrayed when the young minister admitted he had faked cancer for two years in a strange ploy to hide his secret pornography addiction. The fiasco became one of the biggest scandals to rock Australia's Christian community.

In a tearful apology aired on Australian television, Guglielmucci said he faked symptoms and wrote bogus emails from doctors. He sat in waiting rooms alone while his family assumed he was getting treatment. He appeared in church concerts with an oxygen tube in his nose, deceiving thousands of mostly teenage fans into believing he needed a physical healing.

This talented but tormented young man eventually trapped himself in his own deceptive web. Church leaders asked him to confess his lies to the police, since he used the story to raise funds. He was stripped of his ministerial credentials and enrolled in a program offering psychiatric help. Australian church leaders, including pastor Brian Houston of Hillsong Church in Sydney, had to make public statements to calm distraught churchgoers who felt betrayed and in some cases were defrauded of their money.

I can't begin to imagine the pain that Guglielmucci's parents feel. (His father is a pastor who read his son's apology to a stunned congregation outside Adelaide.) I am sure trust was severely damaged among members of Guglielmucci's family. But how do we respond when a leader fails us like this?

Thankfully, in Guglielmucci's case, he did not justify his behavior. His apology was read in churches all over Australia. He told a news reporter: "I'm so sorry not just for lying to my friends and family even about a sickness, but I'm sorry for a life of saying I was something when I'm not. From this day on I'm telling the truth."

This sad drama from Down Under reveals a global problem that the Church must face. It goes much deeper than a porn addiction. It reveals a fundamental lack of integrity. It is the reason we face a serious leadership crisis in today's Church.

Sound the Alarm

Louisiana pastor Larry Stockstill had a disturbing dream one night in 2008. He saw military trucks and armored vehicles getting information for a surprise strike on an American city. In the dream, Stockstill was alarmed by what he saw; but when he tried to warn a pastor the man ignored him.