The principles that you are directly concerned with here are those expressed in 1 Timothy 2 that the woman should not teach or have authority over men in the church. These are discussed in four chapters of the Bible class and in other documents the synod has published. These discuss examples of working from the principles to the applications and practices.

Having such a list of examples does not relieve you of the responsibility of analyzing each office or activity to see whether it exercises authority over men or not. A woman cannot serve as pastor because a pastor must lead, preach, and teach with authority as called overseer of the whole congregation. The church council and voters assembly are the governing bodies of the congregation (the highest authority in the congregation under the Word). So we say women cannot hold office or vote in such governing bodies of the church.

We can't make a simple list of functions which women can or cannot do because in many cases it depends not merely on the function but on the circumstances. Normally, baptisms are done by the pastor, but in case of emergency, laypeople, male or female, can perform them. Women can teach Bible classes for women, conduct devotions for their meetings, make evangelism calls, visit delinquents, usher, greet, comfort, counsel, listen, admonish, forgive. It is much easier to list the activities that they can't do than those they can do because there as so many more they can do.

The reason it is not possible to make a list of all the offices women can or can't do is that the offices can be defined in different ways. Generally our treasurers and financial secretaries are men who also serve on the governing council. There is no reason this has to be so. A woman could pay the bills, keep the record of offerings, and so on. There are many other activities that may or may not involve authority over men depending in the specific arrangements that have been made.

That is why it is necessary to evaluate each case in light of the biblical principles. There is no shortcut around this responsibility.

We should, of course, be very careful that, if we are making changes that people might not understand, we are careful to explain the principles that lie behind the action, so that we understand that we are not changing or evading the principles but assessing whether we have been practicing them correctly or in the only possible way.