Dkshotwell
Puritan Board Freshman
I have been a devoted "Dividing line" listener for close to 20 twenty years I think, and in all those years I have always downloaded it to an mp3 player to listen to it while I work. When it comes to James Whites debates I sometimes listen and sometimes I watch because brother, he is master class and I love it. Just very recently I decided to watch his podcast, and my jaw hit the floor in shocked surprise, when did he get tatted up?. He always wears a suit in debate so I've never seen them before. I know he is well thought of here and I share that view, so I'm not bashing him, but my immediate reaction was...why? People usually do that in their youth, but to wait til middle age seems an odd thing to do. Is it a need to fit in with the young tatted and reformed at Apologia? A relevance play perhaps, but he is plenty relevant already. Like it or not it says something to other people about the person bearing them. I thought ok, maybe he is doing it along the lines of Hudson Taylor who became as Chinese as he could be, but i dont if know that is really the same. I know when i was coming up as a young man in the late 70's i rarely saw tattoos on anybody unless they had military service time, and even then they were the minority. The same held up even to when i myself was discharged from The USN in '82. Im sure its just my age talking, but i would feel some kind of way about my pastor if he got ink 20 years after his ordination, i just would. Nobody does this kind of thing for no reason, some message is being sent. I dont know, am i wrong to feel this way? I wont get hurt by a contrary opinion.
