By Michaela Gordoni
Many know Becket Cook for rejecting his glamorous gay lifestyle and turning to Christ, but it took some important people in his life to help him change.
“On the set of a shoot in 2004, I heard that the model was a Christian. I thought it was gross,” Cook explained in an episode of “The Becket Cook Show.” “Years later, after I came to faith in Christ, she and I had an incredibly surprising encounter.”
Becket was a very successful set and production designer and fashion-line owner. Though he worked on bourgeois projects and was friends with many music and Hollywood stars, he was deeply unsatisfied.
“I went to all the shows. I went to all the after-parties. I was at this one after-party in Paris, and I remember just everyone was there from the fashion world,” he said. “I think Kanye was there that year, and 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 this what it’s all about? And I really started to panic that night,” he said. “I was overwhelmed with a sense of emptiness.”
He soon met Joy Durham-Schafer, a model who recently became a Christian. It was the first time he had met a believer in LA. Joy had broken up with her boyfriend because he wasn’t a believer.
“It really touched me and kind of freaked me out in a way,” Becket told the model on the podcast. “[Frankie] told me the story of you breaking up with him and he said you collapsed on the floor and you were weeping. And he went to hug you, and he said he could feel like the Holy Spirit on you. He sensed something supernatural was going on.”
“I remember when he told me that story it was, maybe, the first spark of me thinking… ‘There must be something real to this kind of Christianity-thing.’ …It definitely planted a seed in me,” Cook said.
His sister-in-law, Kim, also impacted his journey to becoming a believer.
“‘Lord please just save him,'” she had prayed. “I really wasn’t worried about you being gay. I just wanted you saved, and then let God deal with that when the time came,” she told Cook.
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“God wants us to come with those desperate prayers of petition and bear everything to him,” she continued. “And then let him go to work…and then I have to trust [His] timing.”
Cook became a believer in 2005 at a church in LA.
“It was like the road to Damascus moment,” he told Faithwire. “God’s like ‘I’m real. Jesus is my Son. He’s real.”
“I was so blown away I couldn’t stop crying for the rest of the time. I was crying because of two things: the joy of meeting God, and my sin. It was my most intense cry since I was an infant,” he said.
He told The Gospel Coalition that his advice to other believers who care about friends or family who are homosexual: “I think the key is to love your friend unconditionally no matter what, and to pray for them. That’s what my sister-in-law did with me…But I never felt an ounce of judgment from her over the years.”
Cook says he lost many friends because of his faith, but he takes courage from Paul.
Cook said, “Apostle Paul says, ‘I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.'”
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