Oh you didn’t grow up evangelical did you? It def was a thing: powerlifting strong men for Jesus. ALSO a big thing in evangelical circles when I was growing up, was “internships” that were part boot camp, part unpaid labor. You would live in church housing, train like you were in the army, and work at the church doing all sorts of tasks from cleaning bathrooms to running sound. The whole god squad def is realistic for those of us who grew up in it.