Poll - Tattooing: from male military and biker ethos...to viable witness means for both genders?

[Waiting on him]

So really?

Sounds anyway like you would at some stage welcome an opportunity to give her - them? - a little encouragement about ink, which, when the matter was raised years ago, you had different ideas about?

I’ve been thinking about getting her a good gun. She’d think I’d lost my mind lol

 

[farouk]

I’ve been thinking about getting her a good gun. She’d think I’d lost my mind lol

A tattoo 'gun'? or for hunting/self-defence?

 

[Waiting on him]

A tattoo 'gun'? or for hunting/self-defence?

A tattoo gun! I’d be afraid to give her a water pistol

 

[charity]

@charity

I was just telling @Lady Crosstalk about the young lady that my wife and I talked to who had the whole of John 3.16 tattooed modestly and tastefully on her wrist area.

You're right; if people such as she have the inner strength and confidence to use this means in witness, they are likely to do it without regret or shame, right?

On the contrary, for the young lady that my wife and I talked to it was likely for her something wholesome and special to become a tattooed Christian woman in those particular circumstances.

Hello there, @farouk,

It would certainly be a talking point, and create opportunities I agree. Who am I to pass any opinion on the decision made by someone whom God has accepted - in and through His Beloved Son. May His Name be glorified.

In Christ Jesus
Chris

 

[farouk]

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[farouk]

A tattoo gun! ...

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[farouk]

A tattoo gun! I’d be afraid to give her a water pistol

PS: Well, I'm sure she would be both surprised by but also appreciative of such a gift!

(Maybe accompanied by some words of encouragement to her, right?)

 

[farouk]

No ink on the wife . She is pretty conservative in that regard.
She knows the story about my tat so she thinks it’s funny.

So you're glad she can smile about tattoos?

 

[farouk]

She did not like them when we were first dating, but neither of us noticed them now. Plus they have faded over the years to a grey.

PS: Seems like wives these days are a lot more used to tattoos than was the case years ago.

These days, in fact, wives are a lot more likely to have tattoos as well, aren't they?

 

[Hisman]

PS: Seems like wives these days are a lot more used to tattoos than was the case years ago.

These days, in fact, wives are a lot more likely to have tattoos as well, aren't they?

True, but I still don't like them on women. It somehow lowers them I think.

 

[farouk]

True, but I still don't like them on women. It somehow lowers them I think.

So, really, Sir?

My wife and I talked to a young lady with the whole of John 3.16 tattooed on her wrist area. It was good, effective tattoo!

(I think you would have gotten well accustomed by now to women with tattoos if you had happened to be married to one with them...)

 

[farouk]

Hello there, @farouk,

It would certainly be a talking point, and create opportunities I agree. Who am I to pass any opinion on the decision made by someone whom God has accepted - in and through His Beloved Son. May His Name be glorified.

In Christ Jesus
Chris

Don't you think also that now a lot of Christian men and women think similarly?

 

[farouk]

A tattoo gun!

Well, together with words of encouragement, she'll finally get a fuller view of your thoughts on whether tattooing would be a worthy pursuit for her, won't she?

 

[charity]

Don't you think also that now a lot of Christian men and women think similarly?

'I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,
that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice,
holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
And be not conformed to this world:
but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind,
that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.'
(Romans 12:1)

Hello @farouk,

This is very much a matter of the flesh and the things of the flesh, isn't it? and thinking in regard to that is coloured by the society, and cultural influences that have formed us as human beings. Whereas, in Christ, all is of the spirit: and God, the Holy Spirit, works in us that we be conformed to the image of His Son.

In Christ Jesus
Chris

 

[farouk]

'I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,
that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice,
holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
And be not conformed to this world:
but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind,
that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.'
(Romans 12:1)

Hello @farouk,

This is very much a matter of the flesh and the things of the flesh, isn't it? and thinking in regard to that is coloured by the society, and cultural influences that have formed us as human beings. Whereas, in Christ, all is of the spirit: and God, the Holy Spirit, works in us that we be conformed to the image of His Son.

In Christ Jesus
Chris

@charity:

Romans 12.1 is indeed very important, yes.

As you indicate, culture is also significant; and those who have lived in a number of countries will likely admit that one can cultivate Christian attitudes by God's grace without necessarily adopting what might be termed the political correctness of one particular country as if it were a universal thing. (If this makes any sense?)

 

[farouk]

@Waiting on him Anyway I think that by now the make military and biker ethos of tattoos has been safely disposed of. You family is among abundant evidence otherwise, right?

 

[Waiting on him]

@Waiting on him Anyway I think that by now the make military and biker ethos of tattoos has been safely disposed of. You family is among abundant evidence otherwise, right?

The Lord has given us great liberty. I just pray no one abuses this liberty in a quest to harm others.

 

[farouk]

The Lord has given us great liberty. I just pray no one abuses this liberty in a quest to harm others.

Good to remember; it's a matter of adult choice and responsibility.

Seems like your daughters anyway almost celebrated the fact that it's what new adults do as women.

 

[farouk]

@Acolyte It's easier now for tattooed women, isn't it? especially since it's so widespread, and ppl aren't likely to think it's unusual any more. (To think it used to be overwhelmingly a man thing.)

Did you vote yet in the poll, BTW?

 

[farouk]

I just pray no one abuses this liberty in a quest to harm others.

I guess for your daughters anyway it has proved harmless and pretty benign, right?