A heartfelt and laugh-out-loud comedy film, Church People is the story 'America's Youth Pastor', Guy Sides, who realises he's stuck in the mega church marketing machine and wants to find his passion again for helping others to discover what faith in Jesus is all about. Guy is a very popular youth pastor, public speaker, and writer on a wildly successful book and speaking tour. But he begins to worry that no one is truly listening.

Things don't get better when he returns to Sand Hills, the California megachurch where he works with Pastor Skip, a tie-dyed T-shirt-wearing pastor who, ever on the lookout for new gimmicks to spread the word of Jesus, settles on an idea for this upcoming Good Friday: Host a live crucifixion in church, and Guy will be the person to be crucified. Guy balks at this, and begins to find a way to prevent this from happening.

Things come to a head when Skip finds an enthusiastic teen from the youth ministry to get crucified in Guy's place, and Guy must find a way to not only stop the crucifixion, but also help Skip and Sand Hills get back to what's really and truly important.