Jonathan Cain made a name for himself as part of the rock 'n' roll band Journey, who co-wrote the hit song "Don't Stop Believin." He talks about his enduring career in his new book, where he also opens up about his faith and his marriage to Pastor Paula White.
The Journey keyboardist and the minister married in 2015. He told The Christian Post that meeting his wife became a game changer, which helped usher his journey to faith.
"You can't date a pastor too long, especially when you're a rock star, you cannot. We wanted to be right in the spirit," Cain said. "She took me to Africa and surrounded me in prayer, and the next thing you know we got married in a prayer mountain in Ghana," he detailed.
Cain was raised as a Catholic. His parents used to tell him that he would one day become a priest because he loved to pretend he was saying mass with a makeshift robe.
The musician, however, became disillusioned with the Church after surviving a school tragedy in which 92 kids lost their lives. Traumatized, Cain could not reconcile why God allowed his friends to die but his father kept praying for him as he slowly drifted to a different path.
His father eventually enrolled him in music school that opened the doors for his career with Journey. But this world of music was filled with sex and drugs and Cain did not return to God until he had children.
Slowly, Cain's relationship with God healed but it was his marriage to the minister that stabilized his faith.
"I told Paula I hadn't been to church for many years, and how hungry I was for my faith to return," Cain wrote in his memoir "Don't Stop Believin': The Man, the Band, and the Song That Inspired Generations," which has just released in stores. "I told her how deep I used to feel in my relationship with Jesus."
