Poll: Tattoo artist: if a Christian daughter/son of yours worked as one, would you be supportive?

[farouk]

Thanks to all who voted so far in the poll.

NB: If you have not yet voted in the poll, please vote now.

 

[farouk]

What does the board think about ladies having tattoos, or is it it mostly men who have tatts?

Hi @Dropship From your Q some weeks ago.

This is from a recent article:

Paula Castle took up tattooing after being made redundant from a sales job ..."I really did not want to do it. ...But I’m a bit of an all or nothing person so I said ‘yes’ and really pushed myself and I’ve not stopped...About 97% of my clients are female and that is universal across the board."

James McCarthy, Mirror dot co dot uk

It seems clear that often it is female clients that keep the tattoo parlors open and busy, sometimes long into the evenings. (Not unusually, a proportion would want faith based designs.)

 

[farouk]

Those are very nice. Most definitely a great opportunity for a witness engagement.

@dhh712 Sometimes a determined believer can undergo a careful, thorough inking in a modest placement that can prove to be a talking point for many years, maybe (which presumably is what the believer in question earnestly wants).


https://www.google.com/imgres?imgur...=0CHYQMyiBAmoXChMIwLiN8N2u-wIVAAAAAB0AAAAAEA0

 

[farouk]

@Jack FYI.............did you see/ vote in the poll?

 

[farouk]

My daughter is the oldest of my three children and has tattoos of her children's names on her wrists.

@Pearl Yes, children's / grandchildren's names on wrists are a placement that is proving popular and can really convey the message: "These are the people I really love and must keep praying for..."

 

[farouk]

Now my skin is two thin to get a scripture tat, which I wouldn't mind. Probably 1 John 3:23-24. And I don't mind shots and needles. I kinda like it.

@1stCenturyLady

Some of the really thin, precision needles that they have now might in fact work. Maybe you could talk to a good tattoo artist with the latest equipment if you really like the idea of a Scripture tattoo....

 

[Brakelite]

@Behold

Well, yours is a thoughtful point.

I guess it can be viewed also as part of Romans 14 Christian liberty.

The perspective of a lot of ppl - a lot of Christians - would also seem to be that it can be a way of expressing what's on their hearts.


James McCarthy, Mirror dot co dot uk


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Addy said: ↑

I am reminded of the prophet of God who spoke in power and conviction against the fake altar Of Jereboam. God gave this prophet strict instruction to not stop on the way home. Don't eat, don't drink, don't go home the same way. Until someone else, identifying himself also as a prophet, sidled up beside the prophet from Judah and said, an angel appeared to me and told me you could come to my place and eat and drink. The Judean prophet, who up till this time had dinner everything perfectly, decided...
A. There is freedom in God.
B. I can please myself how I serve God.
C. I can witness to this prophet.
D. He seems nice and I like his house, with a nice tidy garden.
E. I can say grace over the bread for that is in my heart.
F. I might even suggest he stay a business and career...a B&B perhaps?

The result of this can be read in 1 Kings 13.

Which prophet are you Farouk?

 

[Brakelite]

and how so many Christians wish to receive them, often for testimony purposes.

I can see this fitting right in...
KJV Revelation 12:11
11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

 

[Brakelite]

If I were wanting to destroy the Christian faith and obliterate it's power as a witness, I could think of nothing more effective than to promote tattoos, smoking tobacco and weed, encouraging cosmetics, justifying Christian rock and alcohol. All of which we have seen from the writer of those thread.
I suppose that extolling the virtues of atheist or new age women would be a step too far, even for Farouk. Although with such a beautiful woman on my arm would I not also look joyful, confident and distinguished?

 

[farouk]

@Dr Jay Feldman FYI............poll started, above............

 

[farouk]

@dhh712 Thanks for the 'like'; as you say, they can be a 'witness engagement' opportunity and as regards your 'very nice' comment, they can radiate modesty also among those who undergo the injecting procedures.

 

[farouk]

tattoos are like anything else: done in moderation adn discretion. ... Cultural preaching is hogwash.

@robert derrick Today it can radiate wholesomeness and serve as a witness tool:

 

[farouk]

I know of more ladies that have tattoos,..
I have seen dozens of small messages or a flower or a butterfly visible

@atpollard

Yes, your comment is also borne out from this quote from the Bible Belt. Pragmatically, it does point to an exponential growth in witness tool design potential, since it's so widely pursued as a personal preference:

Around here (Bible Belt), it is common, especially among evangelical Christians, for the girls under about 40 to have religious tattoos. More do than don't, especially when you get to the under 30 crowd. I hardly know any female at church that is under 30 that does not have a tattoo.

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While some ppl still prefer to base their views on likes and dislikes that were maybe more common many years ago (which is fine), yet a faith based design - often small - is seemingly and exactly what so many homeschooling moms, preachers' daughters, etc., would now likely be confidently open to being inked up with.

 

[robert derrick]

@robert derrick Today it can radiate wholesomeness and serve as a witness tool:

As long as you can read it.

 

[farouk]

As long as you can read it.

@robert derrick Oh so you're referring to the cursive script in the first photo as being less legible than the Bible ref. in the second photo?

You do of course have a point.

Designs and placements for faith based tattoos can indeed radiate modesty. One can readily understand how some faith based design recipients can be overjoyed to undergo such tattooing.