I started serving God with a tattoo ministry named the crossroad's tattoo ministry i wrote a tattoo artist's prayer and i believe all biker ministries should have a tattooministry Face it bikers have tattoos! before i got saved i got many tattoos it was an addiction for me and it was hard to come out of it . I got most of them when i was eighteen or later but i got my frist one when i was twelve years old by a girl i knew with some indian ink and a needle . I got tattoos done every holiday and it quickly became my favorite hobby. I trade my 1969 B.S.A chopper for tattoos and i even put tattoos above my son's bithday party because tattoos had quickly become a very bad idol in my life! When i found the Lord i got three tattoos, although knowing that it was wrong to do so. The Lord says in deuteronomy 5:8 "Thou shalt not make any graven image or any likeness of anything that is in the the heavens above or the waters beneath the earth.." and believe me i have a lot of graven images on my body.
Hopwever it is not enough to keep me or you out of heaven but i believe it is a sin. God said to true from sin not to stay in it Isaiah 49:15 states "Behold i have graven thee upon the palms of my hands " doesn't mean that he has tattoos. it refers to the nail holes in the Lord Jesus' hands ansd it is the only man made thing in heaven .
The Lord said not to be comnformed of this world . But look how many people have tattoos if you have tattoos how are you not of this world? So if we accept tattoos, should we accept all sinful actions as well? Can you justify these things with the Bible?
You see tattoos were one of my favorite things and i miss it. I gave it up for the Lord . I can't justify it and if you do you are saying the Bible is not true. God sent his Son to save all people from their sins and I believe there shoud be Bible , Tracts and wheels of grace magazines in all tattoo shops in the world . I pray more people would see the same need for that as I do. Istill belong to the Christian tattoo association (C.T.A) (www.xtat.org)
I believe there are saved tattoo artists with the purpose to share the Gospel of Christ, so others can trun from treir sins.
This is some of my Life and you can read all of it by geting a wheels of grace mag by going to WWW.WheelsOfGrace.Com
God Bless all Of you Jim Durinsky Of The Redeemed Riders Of Pa
I now go to Seminary at Open Bible Instituye & Theology Seminary
My tattoo artist prayer
Lord I Know You Are Real and I thank you for being in the this shop for me even before I ask Lord bless this studio and the artists in it bless the tools and the clients Thank you for forgiving me and for sending your only Son Jesus to die on the cross for my sins. I ask you to come into my heart Lord and to protect me from evil Lord I thank you for my salvation and I confess openly that Jesus is my Lord and saviour In Jesus name I pray Amen
Obey The Commandmants I was to tell you a story of my life Changing expterence and How Jesus Christ became Lord of my life. For years i've lived my life for me and Thougth of no one else but i always felt a over whelming void in my life. Which ied to drinking and weekend binges to fill that void.One day i was riding my motorcycle and thinking about getting a tattoo i rode past a shop and stopped in. I walked in and the artist ask me what could i do for you . I told him i wanted a tattoo that made me look though when i rode my bike . I got it done and was really satisfied with his work. So i decided to get many more tattoos done by him after many visits the artist started talking about this Jesus guy and what he did for him. I was real curious about this guy i knew nothing about. The artist gave me his bible and told me where to begin reading I was addicted and could not put the bible down. I got save christmas eve 2003. little did i know that my tattoos would end up saving my life. So after reading my bible and learning spripture, I stopped getting tattoos and dedicated my life to Jesus Christ because Jesus stated in john 14:15 If you love me you will obey all of my commandment not some of them. Jesus will ask the Father and he will give you counselor to be with you forever. The world cannot accept him because it never sees him nor knows him. Todd Ruther Redeemed Riders of Pa
