How God Brought CAIN Singer’s Wife From Alcoholism to Christ

Published: October 2, 2023

How God Brought CAIN Singer’s Wife From Alcoholism to Christ

By Movieguide® Contributor

Logan Cain, from the Christian band CAIN, and his wife Emily recently shared how God has used her addiction and recovery to bring them together.

When the couple first met, they were in very different stages in life. As a pastor’s son, Logan had a vibrant faith life. Emily was an alcoholic with no relationship with God.

“I remember the first thing I said to him I was like—he didn’t have a drink in his hand—I was like, ‘You’re not drinking, you’re not smoking, what do you do? I’m like, what’s your deal,’” Emily recalled about the first time she met Logan. “I couldn’t believe that.”

At the time, she had “all these accomplishments that I thought were going to fulfill me and I still was so broken and using all these different things to fill that hole,” including alcohol and men.

The two became friends, but Logan was worried about taking things further, not wanting to “date to convert,” as he had done in previous relationships.

During an 11-hour drive from Nashville to Orlando, Logan shared the gospel with Emily.

“I was in such a really deep, dark place with so many things. I had just gotten out of a really bad abusive relationship, [my] drinking was really bad, and I just felt so lost,” Emily said. “I felt like Logan was the first person, he just like invested in me as a person, as a friend…it wasn’t the surface level thing.”

While Logan was initially hesitant to invest in their relationship, they eventually decided to date.

Emily, however, still struggled with alcoholism. She tried to overcome her addiction, but the pair split because of it.

“A few weeks into the break up, I was frail, I mean it was just like, I’ve given up everything, like I have nothing left, like what do I do,” she shared.

One night at work, Emily heard a voice telling her that only God would satisfy her.

“In an instant, the presence of God filled my car and I heard Him say, ‘Now you can see nothing else can fulfill you but me. Not the drinking, not the alcohol, not the men.’ And that was such a huge part of it too,” she said. “God didn’t want my relationship with Him to be tied to any man because that’s something that I’d used as a crutch, right, and so, yeah, I gave my life to Jesus that day.”

Emily’s faith grew, and God brought Logan back into her life at a Kentucky basketball game. In a sold-out, 25,000-person stadium, the pair ended up sitting next to each other.

“[Emily] taps me on the shoulder and she says we need to talk and I said no, we do not because whatever you have to say, you were right,” Logan recalls. “I was not proud of leaving you there in that place and feeling like, meanwhile, God was doing all this work in me and in my heart.”

“So, she proceeds to tell me the story about how God came and found her and it’s like all I’d ever wanted for her,” he continued.

It became clear to Logan that Emily’s change was real, so the two got back together again.

“I just saw things about her that my mom had been praying about. It was, you know what I mean, it’s the type of person that would sharpen me.”

CAIN described Emily’s journey from addiction to Jesus in the band’s song “Windows Down.”

“It was just kind of [this] age-old tale of a God who relentlessly pursues us and will put things in front of us all along the way that maybe we don’t recognize as him getting our attention or coming after us until ultimately its ultimately, undeniably God,” Logan said of the song in an Instagram video.