DALLAS – Come icy rain, snow or shine, best-selling author Josh McDowell and his co-author Dave Sterrett will host “The World’s Biggest Coffeehouse” tonight to engage their target audience of young adults on matters of hope and faith.
While lounging comfortably and taking occasional sips from their favorite cups of joe, McDowell and Sterrett will host the live webinar from a Dallas-area coffeehouse nestled inside of Chase Oaks Church in Plano. The event will be streamed live via UStream to hundreds of students to jump start a conversation that will attempt to ground them in timeless biblical truths. Nationwide, college and high school students have registered online to participate in groups watching on a big screen or on their personal laptops in the privacy of their home or dorm room.
McDowell, a former agnostic who 50 years ago accepted Christ, is keenly aware of the problems young adults have reconciling the traditional faith with a sudden influx of new-found knowledge they receive during the college years. His books have sold more than 40 million worldwide. In “The Coffeehouse Chronicles,” a series of apologetics novellas written with Sterrett, McDowell tackles hard-hitting issues to guard students from common struggles that await them in college.
“It’s an incredible challenge – and, unfortunately, faith loses out more times than not,” said McDowell about the startling 75 percent of students who walk away from their faith before or in college.
Sterrett, a twentysomething who teaches as an adjunct professor at Liberty University, added, “Once students leave their parents’ homes and enter college life, they’re faced with a host of new ideas and lifestyles from professors, roommates, friends, and social settings.”
McDowell and Sterrett first teamed to write about the false gospel of Oprah Winfrey in “O God: A Dialogue on Truth and Oprah’s Spirituality” for WND Books last year.
The key questions to be tackled by the pair include
- Is the Bible true … really?
- Who is Jesus … really?
- Did the Resurrection happen … really?
McDowell has addressed more than 10 million young people in more than 24,000 talks in 118 countries. His most well-known books are “More Than a Carpenter,” “A Ready Defense,” “Right and Wrong,”“Beyond Belief to Convictions,”“Evidence for Christianity,” “The Disconnected Generation” and “New Evidence that Demands a Verdict.”
