As those providing pastoral care, ministers are to respect the personal responsibility of the members and their freedom of choice. Giving advice in matters such as medicine, law, psychology, or therapy is in no way within the scope of pastoral care. Members are to be referred to professionals. Personal lifestyle choices are entirely at the discretion of the members themselves. No minister has the right, and certainly not the duty, to make decisions concerning the personal affairs of members. If desired, the ministers will naturally support those entrusted to them in pastoral care with sensitive counsel in the various situations of life, both in prayer and with sincere empathy.^[76]