Let's Get Ready to Gospellllllll!

There's a new documentary coming out, profiling Church-sponsored fight clubs (including fighting pastors!). The trailer can be found here: http://time.com/48413/fight-church-trailer-pastor-mma/.

This film will provoke controversy, as any film that broaches the topic of Christianity and culture inevitably will. It will also prove difficult to swallow for Christian pacifists, or those who think that Christianity is inherently pacifistic.

But it also begs the question: How should Christians approach culture? To use Machen's threefold distinction, are we to compromise with culture, forfeiting key doctrines of the faith in order to be relevant, capitulate to the culture, assuming it to be inherently evil and thus avoided, or consecrate the culture, seeking to deconstruct false paradigms in order show the only true paradigm with which to understand the world?

Historically, these three approaches have been represented by liberalism, fundamentalism, and confessionalism, respectively.

And where would "Fight Church" fit within these distinctions? It's pretty clear that there's no "tapping out" on engaging culture here--so is this an example of compromising one's faith or consecrating the culture to the glory of God? Keep it above the belt!

(Hat tip to Mama Chris)