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@L3astAm0ngManyB13ss3d Well...maybe she's already done getting any more ink....but it sounds like you already have talked to her about your ink plans....She only has two.
@L3astAm0ngManyB13ss3d Well...maybe she's already done getting any more ink....but it sounds like you already have talked to her about your ink plans....
(Not an artist myself; a design on my arm years ago wasn't a success...)
@L3astAm0ngManyB13ss3d Sounds like she keeps really busy....Yes, I have only her left, so we are close and share everything. She just got her 2nd degree from college so shes been really busy for a couple years now, and she re- married somewhere around the first of this year.
@GodsGrace So do you think it's a good age to get a first tattoo? or maybe better if at all to have done it years before....See her all the time.
My daughter's neighbor.
No new tattoos for her.
But listen to this:
A friend in London, a very young 50, got her first tattoo about 3 weeks ago.
It started as a witness; it became an addiction. Not good. Fortunately, that nasty infection from her last one motivated her to stop.@Lambano Would you say with having kept getting so many it was almost an addiction? or maybe they were done in a measured way for witness purposes...?
@Lambano Thanks; and - well - I reckon that she still thinks it was really worthwhile having gotten inked up all those times if it still gives her opportunities to tell her witness story, right?It started as a witness; it became an addiction. Not good. Fortunately, that nasty infection from her last one motivated her to stop.
BTW, she once again used her tats to start up a conversation yesterday with someone in the waiting room while her car was getting its oil changed.
Tattoos and memories@Lambano Thanks; and - well - I reckon that she still thinks it was really worthwhile having gotten inked up all those times if it still gives her opportunities to tell her witness story, right?
@Lambano Okay, I appreciate the good humour; but your wife herself, as regards the opportunities that have opened up to tell ppl about her healing, presumably she herself doesn't regret them? (even if you think she got too many...)Tattoos and memories
And dead skin on trial
For what it's worth,
It was worth it all the while.
The right age is when a person decides they want to do this. I think at least in the 20s would be a good age to start. Maybe the decision is more firm. No regrets.@GodsGrace So do you think it's a good age to get a first tattoo? or maybe better if at all to have done it years before....
@GodsGrace You mention also regret; and as regards doing it, some ppl even regret not having had it done many years previously.The right age is when a person decides they want to do this. I think at least in the 20s would be a good age to start. Maybe the decision is more firm. No regrets.
But you could always get a tattoo?@GodsGrace You mention also regret; and as regards doing it, some ppl even regret not having had it done many years previously.
(I saw a quote to that effect from someone who thought that as a young believer a faith based tattoo would have made him challenged towards testimony and accountable.)
@GodsGraceBut you could always get a tattoo?
Right?
Also, I'm speaking in general about all tattoos, not just faith based.
I think when I was a young Christian, a scripture or Christian art Tattoo would have helped me stake a claim as a Christian and made people aware early on. It would have helped sort out friends from the start. So I regret not having that as an option during that time. .. If I found myself in a similar situation to when I was young, I'd probably have a tattoo.
Thank-you, Sir. Stumbling blocks should be avoided, indeed. Those who do not have tattoos do not need to be persuaded actively to get them.
It is also an incontrovertible fact that so many Christians do get them; for example, Bible verse tattoos are proven effective in conversation; and all the young ppl with Bible verse tattoos with whom I have spoken seem to have had them done for witness tool reasons.
We all have our different opinions, but from a practical point of view it is hard for me to dismiss the fact that all the young ppl with Bible verses tattooed with whom I have spoken seem to have received them as conversation-starting witness tools, which manifestly do work in their intended purpose.Still touting, you good and faithful servant, you just cannot help yourself.
If you are saying that people who do not have tattoos do not need to be persuaded actively to get them, then why is this thread being pushed by you so hard, if you also accept that it can be a stumbling block for some "Christians."
Actually, just mingling with people, is often the best way of starting a conversation with other people. Showing them a tattoo is often not the best approach as that can be off putting with many people. Why do I say that. Any conversation where it feels like a tattooed Christian has found a "tool" to "save" them, is being disrespectful to that person. Any mingling among other people should be a learning experience for the Christian and not an excuse to talk down to them at all.
If we are to be a light to the nations or to be the salt for the people of the earth, then we should shine out to the people around us that we are very different from them such that we become their initial "Bible" for them to read. A simple bible verse or scripture reference IMHO simply does not cut it at all.