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1.We recommend that the churches of CPCE and all Christian traditions have a new critical look at their ministries and reflect on the role of their ministries in their ongoing church divisions and separations, so as to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

2.We recommend that the churches of CPCE work further on a common understanding of the concept of an order of ministries to which the ministry of word and sacraments and the ministries of diakonia and episkopé indispensably belong.

3.We recommend that the churches of CPCE respect the correlation of the service of public preaching and the administration of the sacraments broadly affirmed in the theology of ordination, and ordain the persons entrusted with preaching and administering the sacraments.

4.We recommend that the churches of CPCE consider their doctrine and practice of ordination regarding the question of which ministry shall be ordained and which commissioned, in order to ensure the mutual recognition of ministries, and to strengthen the commitment with CPCE as a whole, and with the wider ecumenical movement in general.

5.We recommend further study on the diaconate, given the fact that the diaconal ministry is understood and ordered in several different ways within churches of CPCE. One particular aim should be to clarify its position in relation to ordination.

6.We recommend that the churches of CPCE present the understanding of episkopé in the ecumenical discussion neither as an exclusive task of bishops nor of the ministers of word and sacrament but as a shared responsibility, in which church councils, synods and conferences participate. We recommend that they consider the communal, collegial, and personal elements of episkopé.

7.We recommend further study on the relationship of pastoral oversight, spiritual leadership and governance within the understanding of episkopé.

8.We recommend to those churches of CPCE which do not yet ordain women that they take seriously the broad consensus among the CPCE churches that the ministry of both women and men is a gift of God.

9.We recommend that the churches of CPCE work further on a common understanding of a policy faithful to the gospel in the evaluation of persons living in homosexual relationships, who are called into the service of ministry.

10.We recommend further study on the question how the CPCE model of unity in reconciled diversity can be developed in the light of Christ’s calling for the unity of the church, in order to deepen the communion which already exists between the member churches of CPCE and in order to find links and connections with other churches.