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The good fight?

‘When you look at Jesus’s original crew, they were roughnecks,’ says Paul Burress, a minister at Victory Church, Rochester, New York. It’s one of the reasons he encourages members of his church to fight one another as part of the service.

Paul is one of a surprising number of pastors who use ‘MMA’ – mixed martial arts – in their churches. MMA is also known as cage fighting, a sport that combines kickboxing and wrestling. Leaders like Paul feel that the modern church is not …

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