Nothing says FAIL like Christians confusing the kickboxing ring with the mission field:
As if we needed any more evidence that the church as an institution has gone completely bonkers, I bring you “Fight Church.” The money quote from the above clip:
“The hope is through the fight I can create a relationship with the person I’m fighting and extend Christ to him.”
Er, no, honey. That’s just wrong. Look, I don’t have a problem with martial arts, I don’t think you’re a bad Christian for boxing, but this Fight Club Jesus stuff is not Biblical. It’s a figment of your twisted, fucked up church. Jesus did turn the other cheek. He did not turn a left hook or a roundhouse. Sorry you don’t like that, but them’s the facts.
Box all you want, but don’t pretend you’re spreading the word of the Lord in the process. You’re not. You are doing it wrong. Completely wrong.
Christianity is dead. It’s over. It’s an institution which has so lost its way, and is so desperate for relevance, its leaders latch onto any base human behavior in a desperate attempt to sell what no one is buying. Greed, violence, and war: yeah, there’s a church for that!
Helping the prostitute, the destitute, the immigrant? Not so much.
Why is the surprising soon there will be similar promotions for Greed Church, War Church, Immigrants go Home Church, Only Whites Belong Church, Bash the Gays Church, Starve the Hungry Church, and the Our Savior of the One Percent Church.
Feel free to substitute synagogue, temple or mosque for church. All seem to define their religions in a manner that justifies their own brand of misanthropic behavior.
…They’ve actually already got an umbrella organization for all that: The Prosperity Gospel.
I was once dragged to a performance of The Power Team, who smash blocks of ice with their heads and break chains with their bare hands — in the name of bringing people to Jesus.
They’re 99% sales pitch, just don’t look to closely at the product.
You know who ELSE justified his weird hobby in the name of Jesus? * Everybody *
that dude forgot the first rule of fight church…
I wondered who the first person to say that might be …
I’m glad to see that Patriotboy over to “Jesus’ General” blog’s tireless promotion of “Manly Spartan (oiled up and nekkid) Wrestlin’” is finally getting some well deserved competition from the fundiholics. It’s not good if all of the action is in one genre. WWJCO?*
* Who Would JESUS Choke Out?
Saw a bunch of kids on a street corner soliciting donations to “Jesus’ Army.” It was for a VBS that involved military style training to spread the word and to “prepare for the big fight.” They gave me a promotional flyer. No cross burning seminar.
Sickening.