I would just simply remind the men, who do and will minister as preachers and pastors, that your congregations need to know that you love them [
Joseph A. Pipabeloved brothers]. Calvin points out, if God's people know that you love them, then they are readily going to respond to your teaching. They must know, though, you love them by your demeanour, by your care, by being their pastor, not just by being their preacher. You should not be shut away in some study preparing sermons, attending to the affairs of the church, but moving among them. Yes, in their times of serious trial and affliction, moving among them as a pastor, doing that family visitation.1
19 Sachez-le, mes frères bien-aimés. Ainsi, que tout homme soit prompt à écouter, lent à parler, lent à se mettre en colère;