This pastor is praying while packing heat.

Baltimore Rev. Rodney Hudson said he now carries a gun on him at all times after a series of violent incidents say him attacked at the pulpit while giving a eulogy and mugged in his church’s parking lot.

“I carry and I don’t care who knows it,” Rev. Rodney Hudson told the Baltimore Sun . 4

“It’s sad to say — we all believe in God as our protector, but the other harsh reality is that there are so many people who have absolutely no respect for God and the church nowadays,” said Hudson, a pastor at Ames Memorial Church and the Metropolitan United Methodist Church.

Both churches can only afford to hire one security guard, so Hudson has made himself the second line of defense.

“If they get past him, I’m the second guard,” said Hudson, who w

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