When a man wielding a rifle walked into a North Carolina church on New Year’s Eve, the pastor took action — by praying with him.

The man, whose name has not yet been released, reportedly walked into Heal the Land Outreach Ministries in Fayetteville, North Carolina approximately 20 minutes before midnight, saying that the Lord had told him to go to the church prior to doing something wrong. Pastor Larry Wright, 57, said he noticed the man as he walked into his church — hoisting the gun in the air in one hand and holding loaded ammunition clips in another hand — and stepped down from his pulpit to meet him in the middle of the sanctuary.

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