If the congregations and members of Synod search the Scriptures, they will undoubtedly be surprised to find women holding positions of spiritual leadrship in both the Old Testament and the New (judges, prophets, teachers, evangelists) and no solid evidence for denying women ordination into pastoral ministry. And if they searched the Confessions, they will find that for true unity in the church all "it is enough to agree concerning the teaching of the Gospel and the administration of the sacraments" (AC VII).