Sir Dickson@Wizarab10
I really do not know if having a tattoo is wrong. I have no problem with it even though I do not desire to have one. However, being a pastor, he has a bigger responsibility because perception is as important as the truth.
I'll just drop 3 scriptures.
1. Here is a trustworthy saying: Whoever aspires to be an overseer of a church, desires a noble task. Now the overseer is to be above reproach.
- 1 Tim 3:1-2
2. Be careful, however, that the exercise of your rights does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
For if someone with a weak conscience sees you, with all your knowledge, eating in an idol’s temple, won’t that person be emboldened to eat what is sacrificed to idols?
So this weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.
When you sin against them in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause them to fall.
- 1 Cor 8:9-13
3. Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification.
Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a person to eat anything that causes someone else to stumble.
It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything else that will cause your brother or sister to fall.
So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves.
- Roms 14:19-22