‘Fight Church’ Documentary Featuring MMA-Battling Pastors to Premiere This Month

“Fight Church,” a new documentary that examines the relationship between Christianity and mixed martial arts — and even follows a group of fighting church pastors — is set to open later this month.

“Can you love your neighbor as yourself,” the movie’s trailer asks, “and at the same time knee him in the face as hard as you can?”

TheBlaze reported about the film almost two years ago during its fledgling, Kickstarter stages; now “Fight Church” is set to premiere April 24 at the Independent Film Festival of Boston, then on April 25 at the Nashville Film Festival, according to the movie’s Facebook page.

“We’ll just be a couple of God-fearing men punching each other in the face,” one fighting pastor explains in the trailer, which also depicts kids putting on the gloves and headgear and going at it.

“Jesus never tapped out,” another pastor says. “He came to finish what he needed to do.”