Ben Fuller Isn’t Done Sharing the Story of How Jesus Rescued Him from Addiction
Ben Fuller says he knows his testimony isn’t new to everyone in Christian music, but he feels called to keep telling it anyway. That’s because his story testifies to the God who rescued him from drug addiction, transformed his life, and placed him on a platform to point others to Jesus, especially those walking a similar path.
“The devil doesn't want me to tell my story,” Fuller told Crosswalk Headlines.
“But it's by the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony that we shall overcome,” he added, referencing Revelation 12:11.
Fuller this summer released Walk Through Fire, the third album under his label and one he says is “more real and more raw and more honest than ever before.”
It includes the hit song Turn, a collaboration with Carrie Underwood titled If It Was Up to Me, and a personal track, Black Sheep, written for those who feel abandoned. The album, he says, is a testament to his journey. Fuller grew up in Vermont and didn’t come to Christ until adulthood.
“I spent 14 and a half years in active addiction -- cocaine, alcohol, sleeping around -- you name it, all the things to try to fill all the voids, but nothing ever worked.”
Fuller moved to Nashville in 2018 with dreams of country music stardom. God had other plans.
“I got invited to church by a family from Vermont -- which was just even cooler. God sent this family to Nashville as well before I even got here, got them established, and then they got my number, called me up and said, ‘Ben, will you come to dinner? We love your music. We want you to come.’ And so I did. I went to their house for dinner.”
They then invited him to church.
“I was like, ‘Well, you guys fed me. I'll go with you to church’ -- whatever, you know. Why not? And I was taught growing up on a dairy farm that when somebody does something nice for you -- you do something nice back. And so I went to church with them, and I've never been the same since Jesus.
“I'd come to a point of, you know, I'm tired of drinking, I'm tired of being hungover, I'm tired of finding another broken relationship. I'm tired of this stuff. It's like: God, what have you got for me? I need something. I need something to hold on to, and that something is Jesus. And so I found all my hope and put all my hope and joy and strength and hurt and hang-up and heartache -- I put everything in Him, and I just said, ‘Jesus, You do it because I'm tired. I can't do it anymore.’ And it turns out he already did it. He did it on the cross, and He hung on the cross for us, and He died for us and rose again so that we will have a life and so that we could find life abundant.”
In the span of a few years, he’s gone from struggling with addiction to—this summer—performing at the Grand Ole Opry with Underwood. He’s been sober for six years.
“I can't explain it. I can't comprehend it. It's more than I could ask, think or imagine. All I can do is just boast and brag on what Jesus has done for me. … Jesus is the only answer and the only hope that I've found in this crazy life.”
Photo credit: ©Ben Fuller/Provident.
Michael Foust has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years. His stories have appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity Today, The Christian Post, the Leaf-Chronicle, the Toronto Star and the Knoxville News-Sentinel.
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Originally published July 30, 2025.
