{"id":4983,"date":"2023-03-08T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/?p=4983"},"modified":"2023-03-07T19:10:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T00:10:26","slug":"episode-15-a-gay-mans-incredible-story-of-redemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/episode-15-a-gay-mans-incredible-story-of-redemption","title":{"rendered":"Episode 15: A Gay Man&#8217;s Incredible Story of Redemption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.becketcook.com\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Becket Cook<\/a><\/strong> was saved out of homosexuality in 2009. He now spends much of his time in ministry speaking at churches, universities, and conferences helping believers (and non-believers) understand this issue biblically, theologically, culturally, and personally. Balancing grace and truth when teaching on this subject is of primary importance. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On August 8, 2019 Paul spoke with Becket Cook about his memoir, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Change-Affection-Incredible-Story-Redemption\/dp\/1400212308\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=\">A Change of Affection: A Gay Man&#8217;s Incredible Story of Redemption<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0which was released on July 30, 2019 by Thomas Nelson (Harper Collins).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/RTCM_15.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Recovering the Christian Mind | March 8, 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Homosexuality Was My Identity\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K8a5I0yv0Dw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WORLD MAG: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wng.org\/sift\/freedom-for-the-same-sex-attracted-1617252241\">Freedom for the Same-Sex Attracted<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Becket Cook was saved out of homosexuality in 2009. He now spends much of his time in ministry speaking at churches, universities, and conferences helping believers (and non-believers) understand this issue biblically, theologically, culturally, and personally. Balancing grace and truth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/episode-15-a-gay-mans-incredible-story-of-redemption\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4983"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4990,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4983\/revisions\/4990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}