Have you ever wondered what the world thinks of Christians getting tattoos on their bodies? Most of the time people think that they're "horrible Christians" because they've destroyed their body with adding art to it. With this generation people are either getting tattoos or piercings, because thats the common interest.

Even though in 1 Corinthians 3:17 it says "If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple" For me getting a tattoo is a big deal because I have to have a thoughtful and meaningful tattoo before I get something permanent on my body. Its becoming more common to see someone without tattoos then to see people with tattoos.

I'm 20 years old, and in the last two years I have gotten six tattoos on my body, not only because I wanted to, but because they had a meaning that I was fine with sharing. I my tattoos as a biblical meaning, with the simple designs so it will often times get people to ask questions on what each tattoo means.

This summer I worked as a summer youth intern at a church in Dexter, Missouri and it was my first ever ministry type of job with my tattoos, so I wasn't sure how things would go, but I knew that it would be a good learning experience. But my first week there I traveled to Florida with the high school youth students for beach retreat event and of course, all six of my tattoos became visible since we were at the beach. At first I was super nervous and wasn't sure what to expect, but then it was such a fun experience, when people started asking questions on what each tattoo means, it actually gave me joy because it was my witnessing tool. After one parent asked about my tattoos he then started going around and telling other students saying "Hey Andrew has some really cool tattoos, you should go ask him about them!" hearing him say that honestly gave me joy!

I had so much joy because this was at the beginning of my internship, and I thought to myself "If this happened during the first week, imagine what could happen during the next nine weeks!" So then I was beyond ready to see what was going to happen. I spent 10 weeks working at this church, and each week it felt like I talked to someone new about my tattoos and it made me feel more welcomed into the church family for the summer.

With every person, comes many different ways of witnessing, some have testimonies and others have track cards, but for me its my testimony and my tattoos as witnessing tool, and I couldn't be happier!