Pastor shares amazing story of distraught vet who came to service with gun

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A North Carolina pastor was able to calm a man who entered his church carrying a high-powered rifle during a New Year's Eve sermon.

The two prayed together and the man, a veteran who suffers from PTSD, stayed for the rest of the service.

One congregant said that when she first saw the rifle, she immediately thought about the Charleston church massacre that happened last year.

On Sunday, the man returned to the church to apologize for the scare he had caused, and said that his wife has just been diagnosed with a debilitating illness and the couple are in dire financial straits, which is making it hard for him to afford medication for PTSD.

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