Joseph R. Alila

Sins of Our Hearts Joseph R. Alila

A young Pastor, Rew Smith, leads the affluent Oakpound New Hope Church, in which things appear to be well, but his church has a deep spiritual problem: His church suffers from a shortage of love. His church lacks a nurturing spirit for the undoctrinated new converts. Pastor Smith's lay leaders call new converts names, and hardly attend to them, as the young Pastor spends most of his evenings at Oakpound Big Boys Health and Fitness Club. Members of his Lay Leadership bask in self praise and embrace a form of spirituality without any force of love behind it. Led by Mrs. Smith, some members of the women wing of the church have introduced a controversial foot-washing method for its convenience, but in which the virtues of service, humility, and selfless love virtually are dead.