The phrase, ’The lord moves in mysterious ways’ has never been more appropriate than in this clip from the ‘Fight Church’ documentary as a Christian muay thai fight ends in a bizarre, and no doubt exceptionally painful, fashion.

The documentary had looked to shine a spotlight on a project designed to promote Christianity by having people fight in a church.

That might be a tricky concept to get your head around, so here’s one of the fighters himself to explain the thinking behind it.

The whole reason we’re having the fights here is so that we can bring people in and tell them about god, the man claimed prior to his fight. The hope is that I can create a relationship with the person I’m fighting and extend Christ to him.

If I win the fight it’s because God gave me that fight, it’s not anything I’ve done. It’s already been decided who won, it’s just we wait to find out what happens.

Christians or not, when the opening bell sounded the two fighters immediately went to town on each other in a frenzied exchange of punches, kicks and knees.

Before long the finish arrived, delivering equal measures of hilarity and cringe-inducing pain as one fighter delivered a hard knee to the babymaker at the same time as his opponent homed in an uppercut to his family jewels.

As you might expect both men then crumpled to the mat in agony, resulting in the modern-day miracle of a double nutshot knockout.

“>

The action then cuts to post-fight in the locker room where it turns out the participants faith remained unshaken as one fighter bowed his head and clutched a bag of ice to his unmentionables while his coach thanked the lord for the fact that there had been no damage and nothing swole up.

Hallelujah!

It’s not clear whether they were able to convert anybody to their cause after this event, but no doubt everyone in the church that day went on to have a healthy debate about why God wasn’t able to come up with a more practical design for the male genitalia.