Poll: Does the mainstreaming of tattoos open up increasing opportunities for faith ink witness?

[farouk]

Hi @Cookie Thanks for your poll vote; I see you voted 'yes'; so do you find that any faith related conversations have followed any tattoos that you have?

 

[farouk]

Thanks to all who voted so far in the poll!

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

 

[Cookie]

Hi @Cookie Thanks for your poll vote; I see you voted 'yes'; so do you find that any faith related conversations have followed any tattoos that you have?

I have a Lion tattooed on my right hand, that represents the Tribe of Judah, where Jesus comes from so yes, this is my Lion of Judah.

 

[farouk]

I have a Lion tattooed on my right hand, that represents the Tribe of Judah, where Jesus comes from so yes, this is my Lion of Judah.

@Cookie So are you, like many other tattooed Christian men and women, finding that you decision to get inked with something faith-based and conversation-friendly has paid off, so to speak, in the opportunities for witness discussion that it may bring about?

 

[farouk]

Exactly; the true mark of spirituality is inward...

@Nancy Thanks for your 'like' for this on the other thread!

Pragmatically, if faith based tattoos are likely to work in bringing about witness conversations and opportunities, some Christians are still likely to go for them and get inked up — even if, as you agreed, it's the inward rather the outward that counts.

 

[farouk]

What do you reckon Torah tattooed on my left knuckles, and Grace tattooed on my right knuckles?

@Josho So did you ever pursue this by talking to an artist at a parlor?

 

[farouk]

@halbhh FYI...thread & poll. above...

 

[Cookie]

@Cookie So are you, like many other tattooed Christian men and women, finding that you decision to get inked with something faith-based and conversation-friendly has paid off, so to speak, in the opportunities for witness discussion that it may bring about?

Yes. Infact my lion is a cover up from an Illuminati jail tattoo. So it serves well for testimony, and people always ask about it.

 

[farouk]

.. it serves well for testimony, and people always ask about it.

@Cookie

These days among many demographics it is so widespread; e.g.:

My wife has talked about this possibility, but she has said she'd have a hard time deciding what to put permanently on her body. She has been urged by other military spouses to get one.

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Among some demographics -of which the above example is of only one of many - it really is so widespread to get tattooed (among military spouses, for example, often in faith, family or patriotic themes) that while it's obviously not essential (quite right, too), it seems widely regarded as being almost essential.

Since for so many people today it is so widespread and like you say provides you with many witness opportunities to tell them about what you believe, it's very understandable that many young Christians want to use this very widely practised custom as a ready means of telling others of their faith convictions using their ink as a likely and conversation-starting tool.

So I guess for you the fact that getting tattooed has been mainstreamed has become - whether indirectly or coincidentally - a positive thing for you, right?

 

[farouk]

@bukka FYI.....poll, above, and thread....

 

[farouk]

@bukka Thanks for your poll vote.

It's certainly been mainstreamed now, anyway.

 

[farouk]

@Angelina So are you surprised at all at the tattoo poll results above, so far? (seeing as you're already inked, of course).

 

[farouk]

My oldest daughter has multiple tattoos. My wife has a butterfly ... My youngest daughter has no desire to get a tattoo. Both of my daughters are adults, by the way.

@MetalMike For those who do it, it's definitely something for adult women to do, rather than for adolescents.

 

[farouk]

@Eternally Grateful Thanks for your poll vote.....

 

[Cookie]

@Cookie

These days among many demographics it is so widespread; e.g.:
christianforums dot com

Among some demographics -of which the above example is of only one of many - it really is so widespread to get tattooed (among military spouses, for example, often in faith, family or patriotic themes) that while it's obviously not essential (quite right, too), it seems widely regarded as being almost essential.

Since for so many people today it is so widespread and like you say provides you with many witness opportunities to tell them about what you believe, it's very understandable that many young Christians want to use this very widely practised custom as a ready means of telling others of their faith convictions using their ink as a likely and conversation-starting tool.

So I guess for you the fact that getting tattooed has been mainstreamed has become - whether indirectly or coincidentally - a positive thing for you, right?

Yes, what satan intended for evil God used for Good

 

[farouk]

... God used for Good

@Cookie My wife and I talked to a young woman with the whole of John 3.16 tattooed on her wrist area; it was her favorite verse, and mine also; and I'm sure that other conversations have arisen as a result of that young woman's evident willingness to go to the parlor for its inking in.

Also I talked a while ago to a young man with the same verse in full tattooed along his arm; placed slightly further back along the arm from where the young woman had hers inked in.

I would guess that that young woman and that young man would each of them think that it was only a good thing for them to have endured the pain and cost of those inkings in order to have them as likely effective tools for conversations in witness.

The inking itself does not of itself produce any spiritual value to the wearer. But as a highly effective tool in witness conversations its worth is likely seen clearly, over and over, by people such as the young woman and the young man talked to.

I'm sure you would exactly understand why they wanted to have it done, right?

For each of them it's likely that they were very pleased to assert her / his young adulthood as a confident tattooed woman / man of faith.

 

[farouk]

@OzSpen FYI....Did you see / vote in the poll, above? :)

 

[farouk]

@bukka PS:, BTW: are there many Christians in your area with faith based tattoos, that you are aware of?

 

[farouk]

@Waiting on him As per your recent comments on the other thread, don't you think that your daughter, with interests in tattoo art, would especially appreciate Erin Hanson's art?

I can see how Erin Hanson's style would go particularly well with sleeves and back-pieces.

 

[farouk]

@OzSpen I think tattoo artists in Australia are particularly privileged to be surrounded by such a uniquely inspiring environment of landscape colour environment, don't you think?