My church (Wildwind of Grand Blanc, Michigan) holds an annual tattoo event. We call it Tattoo U. This coming saturday, the 22nd, just so happens to be Tattoo U 3.
We contact a local tattoo shop and rent out the entire shop. Lots of memebers from the church show up and get tattoos, and we invite friends and we have pizza and pop and lots of other good food and we hang out at the tattoo shop.
We find that it's an awesome evangelizing tool, because it really catches the tattoo artists off guard to have a church come in with that type of event. We also make sure we feed the tattoo artists and involve them with our church family.
It's really awesome!
I have 4 tattoos by the way. My very first is a tattoo of Jesus on the Cross, with the verse
John 3:16 beneath it. It covers the majority of my right upper arm and shoulder.
I have a tribal band around my left arm, a chinese symbol on my forearm and a black dragon on my calve.
The law against tattoos is found in the book of Leviticus along with many other ceremonial laws (such as not eating pork).
As we all know, Jesus has set us free from those things!
It's basically a matter of preference and pain tolerance.
Then again, you do want to consider the message that the tattoo will convey. Example: Don't have Nazi 666 with a bunch of swastikas tattooed on your forehead! (or anywhere else on you!)
