Ministers stand in service to God. They provide care to the members of the congregation entrusted to them, and promote their faith and knowledge. In caring for their souls, they sympathise with their personal concerns, pray with them, and help them carry the burdens of daily life. Such pastoral care requires personal neutrality, and presupposes that ministers make no distinctions with respect to gender, social status, colour of skin, tribal affiliation, ethnicity, or basic convictions when it comes to the care of those entrusted to them.