292 A Change of Affection (Becket Cook)

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I’ve got a fascinating interview for you with Becket Cook. Now some of you may recognize his name from the interview I did with him two years ago (Interview 18). In that episode Cook shared his amazing testimony of how he went from a committed gay production set designer in Hollywood to experiencing God in a church service so deeply that it completely changed his life forever. Here’s a description of that moment:

All of a sudden, a giant wave of God’s presence came crashing over me. A flood of intense warmth, emotion, and power coursed through me. I didn’t understand it at the time, but I now believe it was the Holy Spirit. I had no prior experience with this, no framework for it, and no way of anticipating it…God revealed himself to me. In that moment, everything became clear: God was real, Jesus was real, the Bible was real, the resurrection was real, heaven was real, hell was real–it was all real…It felt like gallons of love were being poured into me…After my stunning encounters with God, I knew I could no longer pursue romantic relationships with men…Put plainly, I accepted that it was a sin. -Becket Cook, A Change of Affection, (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2019), pp. 19, 20, 22.

Cook’s book, A Change of Affection, is out and it goes way more into detail than our earlier interview. It’s an engaging relatively short read (less than 200 pages), all telling Cook’s history and conversion and how he thinks about same-sex attraction now. And what’s so cool about Becket Cook’s story is that this all happened 10 years ago. He’s not some fly by night testimony-today and fall-away-tomorrow kind of person. He’s stood the test of time. He’s gone to seminary at Talbot and he understand the Christian worldview and he has a seminary-level understanding of the bible. In this interview I ask him about the book, how it’s been received, and about his future.

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• Get the book A Change of Affection
• Listen to my first interview: God Woo’s Fashion Set Designer from Gay Lifestyle
• To get in touch with Cook or to book him to speak at your church or event, visit becketcook.com or email him [e-mail]
• Watch his excellent talk at BIOLA from 2014 on YouTube
• Check out these other Restitutio posts on Christians who struggle with same sex attraction
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