@michaelvpardo So do you think it would be good and useful if more Christians worked in tattoo parlors?
Not really. I grew up being dissatisfied with myself. Other kids some times made fun of me, the way that I looked, and I was extremely self conscious until I was in my teens and discovered that people are prone to meanness out of envy and jealousy. God created us. He made us to be what we are, so in my mind, to alter our appearance is to suggest that God made a mistake. I wouldn't get plastic surgery unless I suffered some disfigurement and I wouldn't choose to be a plastic surgeon despite the lucrative position of profiting on people's vanity. If people want to have tattoos as a part of their witness, that's entirely up to them, but I wouldn't encourage anyone to alter themselves to create an artificial testimony. Life creates our testimony. How we respond to circumstances through faith, that's real testimony. How we face the struggles and trials of life is our testimony. A tattoo is little different than an icthus bumper sticker on your car and is entirely meaningless without a faithful life experience behind it.
People have lots of interesting and innovative ways of trying to reach people for Christ but embracing various forms of carnality to make ourselves more acceptable to the world "for the purposes of evangelism" seems a bit like trying to be friends with the world for the sake of the gospel. It's a kind of distorted thinking which ignores scriptural admonition and actually puts your relationship with God in jeopardy:
Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. James 4:4
It's very difficult to be in the world, but not of the world. It's very difficult to be a faithful disciple of the Lord, but there are no short cuts and compromise always has evil consequences. Unfortunately, it seems that most professing Christians these days have "a better idea" and stuffing pews has become more important than obedience to God and faithfulness to Christ.
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And to the angel of the church in Sardis write,
‘These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: “I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. Revelation 3:1
Please don't imagine that I'm suggesting that having a Christian tattoo indicates unfaithfulness or lack of a relationship with God, but embracing worldliness in any form is damaging to the body of Christ, regardless of motive.