Hollywood Production Designer Leaves Gay Lifestyle for Christ
By Movieguide® Contributor
Becket Cook had all the success anyone could want from a Hollywood career.
He moved to from Texas to LA to pursue acting and writing, eventually becoming a production designer working with top photographers and on shoots for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. He also lived as a gay man. “He had a series of many relationships with men throughout the next fifteen years,” he shares on his website.
But he eventually realized none of that satisfied him Movieguide® reported:
“I was kind of looking out over the crowd. It just struck me so profoundly. I was like, is that all there is to life? Just going to parties for the rest of my life is that all? Is this what it’s all about? I really started to panic that night, I was overwhelmed with a sense of emptiness,” Cook said.
Several months after that night, Cook was back in LA with a friend and went to a coffee shop where he had a conversation with two men reading their Bibles.
After an hour-long conversation, they shared the Gospel with Cook and his friend. Cook asked them about the church’s view on homosexuality.
One of the men told him that it was a sin.
“What’s weird about that moment is like a year before or five years before, I would have kind of like thrown my coffee on them, but I just kind of was like, ‘hmm.’ I kind of appreciated the frankness and their honesty about it instead of beating around the bush and dodging the question,” Cook said in an interview with Kirk Cameron.
The following Sunday, Cook found himself at their church, and the pastor’s sermon changed his life.
“Everything he’s saying, every sentence, every word he’s saying is resonating as truth in my heart and in my mind, and I don’t know why,” Cook recalled. “…I’m literally on the edge of my seat, and I don’t want him to leave the stage. I want him to continue preaching. He finally leaves, and he says there’s people on the sides of the church if you want prayer for anything.”
He continued, “I walk over to the side, I go up to the guy, and I’m like, ‘Hey. I’m here. I don’t know what I believe, but I’m here.’ He said, ‘Let me pray for you.’ He prayed for me, and it was so lovely, and it seemed really intense and very long. I was like, ‘How does this straight dude love me so much?’ And it just felt very loving.”
Cook returned to his seat, and as the worship service continued, “all of a sudden God revealed himself to me in that moment.”
“It was almost like the curtains had finally parted, and I could see the truth, reality, for the first time in my life,” he explained.
Since that moment, Cook has given up his homosexual lifestyle and dedicated his life to following God.
He now speaks at churches and hosts “The Becket Cook Show.”
“His goal is to challenge the current cultural narrative about sexuality in general and homosexuality in particular by demonstrating through his personal testimony and biblical truths that, yes, homosexuality is still a sin, and that following Christ is infinitely more satisfying and joyous,” Theology in the Raw reported.
Cook details his story in his 2019 book, “
