Rediscover the goodness and beauty of the Body of Christ. Winner of the 2025 Christianity Today Book of the Year Award and Church and Pastoral Leadership category; Winner of The Gospel Coalition's award for First-Time Author in 2025 The evangelical church is hemorrhaging. Over 40 million Americans have dechurched in the last 25 years alone, and multiple generations have been raised to believe the most spiritual thing they can do is follow God by following their heart - right out of the church. Yet, this shift is happening right as society is hitting record levels of loneliness, stress, and anxiety. In The Reason for Church, pastor Brad Edwards connects the dots of our current church crisis and provides compelling reasons to come back. In part 1, Edwards shows how individualistic beliefs make church implausible and compromise our spiritual formation: * Marketplace logic and consumeristic approaches to discipleship * Intuitional spirituality and therapy speak * Social media's distortion