The sojourner Boxing Club

The Sojourner Boxing Club is an international organization that was founded in 2024 in an effort to magnify the name of Christ among the nations through the development of a Biblical theology of health and fitness.

In our endeavor to better live out the Kingdom mandate given to us by God and to be good stewards of the resources that God has graciously afforded to us, it is vital that we keep our eyes firmly fixed where they ought to be. 

The Westminster Shorter Catechism reminds us that our chief aim in life is to honor God. Before anything else, we must honor Him whose Kingdom endures forever and ever, whose dominion has no end. Our goal in life should not be to amass worldly treasures and pursue fleeting pleasures, no, it should be to give glory to His name. 

From this vantage, we begin to see things differently. 

The fitness world today is full of vain, self-glorifying, sensual self-idolatry that promotes an un-Biblical model for personal identity and fitness. To many, the temptation may be to flee from maintaining physical fitness altogether in the name of fleeing from temptation. 

Yet, as those who have put on Christ, our desire should be to find the Biblical approach to stewarding the bodies that God has given us in a way that honors Him. The believer who has been radically changed by the Gospel of Jesus Christ is free to pursue God’s glory in all areas - by faith. The law has been written on their hearts and they will spend the remainder of their days being sanctified by God until their final glorification.

In this state of being between two worlds - a citizen of heaven sojourning here below - the believer must be equipped to face adversity and trial, to serve those around them, to teach sound doctrine, to defend the truth, to love the least of these, and ultimately to give their very lives for the sake of the Gospel.

Their concern cannot be for vain pursuits; therefore, the application for physical fitness becomes clear: 

• Those who belong to Christ must seek to honor Him with their lives. 

• They should be strong. 

• They should run with endurance. 

• They should not merely shadowbox - they should step into the area. 

Not merely to receive an earthly prize, but to bring glory to His name.

Simply, while Christians should seek to maintain their physical bodies, their greater ambition should be to grow in Christ’s likeness. The club is designed to aid believers in that effort.

The Apostle Paul addresses this in 1 Timothy 4:8, “For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.”

Accordingly, the Sojourner Boxing Club is for those who will press on to know the Lord, who will seek to honor Him with their lives, who will race to receive an eternal prize that will never pass away, who will step into the arena and fight for His glory, and for those would lay day their lives so others might live.

In the future, there may be merchandise available - a portion of proceeds will always go to support the taking of the Gospel to every tribe, nation, and tongue - that’s just the way it is.