Josh was just what the purity industry had been waiting for. IKDG quickly became required reading for white,II American evangelical adolescents, teenagers, and young adults who were serious about their faith, selling over one million copies.III Josh, meanwhile, became one of the bestselling evangelical authors of all time. He wrote many more purity culture favorites and eventually became the head pastor of a megachurch.
How an unmarried 21 year old became the freaking authority on dating is beyond me. This was a snowball effect of failures right here.
