Or “Faith Sleeves” or whatever. Still, it’s an interesting way to bring the word to people. I wonder if they charge for the tattoos or removal services or do it all gratis. The article isn’t clear on that.
Gold Creek Community Church is attempting to be hip, fresh and current with today’s body art culture.
The Mill Creek, Wash., church is not exactly staid — booming 20-minute rock sets launch regular sermons — yet the pastors acknowledge this series was pushing societal norms.
‘We’ve said from the start that we are not advocating tattoos — nor discouraging them,’ said pastor Larry Ehoff.
‘We think of it as amoral. It’s neither immoral nor moral, it’s just the choice of a person.’
Too bad these guys and the rest of the religious world couldn’t pull back and let more choices be up to the person, not up to what a church claims is moral or immoral. Sure, people are going to make some of poor choices. Such is life. If churches were run less like strict, domineering parental units and more like compassionate friends offering shoulders to cry on, maybe fewer people would rebel from that lifestyle. I think there should be more acceptance of the differences, and less judgement when people want to live another way. Everyone would be better off, I suspect.
December 1, 2009 at 6:08 am
Hang on!!! Doesn’t Leviticus say something about not putting tattoo’s on yourself.