Lou, an alcoholic, is sick of the fake churches that drive him to drink. Ren shows up to give him a ride to work so he’ll be on time...and tells him he’s also tired of the hypocrisy and is starting a real church.

Farrell has just been excommunicated because the van driver at Praiseville wouldn’t go get all the souls he won, and Farrell rebuked him. When Ren gives him a ride home, the pastor speaks of hating the fake churches, too.

Hank lives in the boonies - a circle of shacks called Gooney Hill - and is unchurched. When he runs into Ren at the gas station after work, Hank finds a spiritual home.

Burt is sick of his job, where his boss promotes corrupt youth instead of Burt, who has seniority. But when Ren walks into his bar, he encourages Burt to stay sober and work with diligence. Ren also reminds him those worldly fools will be damned.

Sky is the praise-and-worship leader at Ren’s church. As a former local rock star who’d kill anybody for a quarter, it won’t be hard to keep the rule with a rod of iron.

Ren, a preacher and a prophet, may be the answer these searching souls need. Or is he? What’s with the hateful new order?

Yet, when all but Hank try to leave, Lou and Burt find themselves about to fall off the wagon...until Ren shows up wherever they are to stop them. Then, Ren wants special privileges he says only the pastor of a "real church" should have. Now, Lou and Burt must decide to go back to the hooch or endure the corruption. And Farrell must find a way to bring Ren to justice...by any means necessary.