I appreciate she was trying to make a joke, but as a pastor, I'm not impressed with the punchline.She feels it also increases her attention to a good sermon, since we are watching and she, tongue in cheek, suggest if we don't like the sermon, she makes a good target!
To the question, some of my lay leadership isn't all that keen on CHLs or firearms. I suspect they would frown on carrying in church a great deal. I also have a couple of folks who seem OK with it - at least, in the abstract they are OK with it. My congregational president calls me the "Pistol Packin' Preacher." It's been funny up til now; now, I need to tell him to knock it off. My personal stance is "Don't ask, don't tell - except to me" so that if the proverbial fertilizer hits the air oscellation unit, I know who I can count on for back-up or whom I need to back-up.
Good grief, I even have an HPD officer who doesn't go heeled on Sundays - or most of the time he's off duty. And, he's a 20+ year veteran. But he encouraged me to get the license and carry on Sundays. Go figure! But he wants to work up a security plan for the church building.
Anyhow, like Longtooth and UptheIrons, you can chalk me down as a pistol packin' preacher (to-be). Just in case someone REALLY is upset by the sermon or the offering plate.
Q