• Cooperate in maintaining chaplaincies for hospitals, prisons, military, higher education, etc.
  
• Parishes cooperate in particular contexts, e.g., urban situations, for shared mission and ministry.
  
• In concert, identify local issues of human need and social justice about which clergy should speak together as a group, or at the same time from their own pulpits, and which should be discussed and acted on with other congregations.
  
• Cooperate in establishing new parishes, encouraging shared life and perhaps shared facilities for existing parishes in areas of population decline, and referring communicants to one another's parishes where only one church has a parish (recommended in pp101, Implications).*
  
• Give consideration to shared facilities, equipment, supplies, and service.
  
• Common work in evangelization can be organized around Holy Baptism (recommended in pp112, Implications). Coordinate evangelistic initiatives with ELCA counterparts.
  
• Give common attention to ethical dimensions of the Christian life (recommended in pp114-124, Implications).
  
• Invite Lutheran bishop to suggest someone to participate in the diocesan group that does mission planning; joint planning of mission priorities by congregations and dioceses/synods; propose where to begin to strengthen joint actions.
  
• Diocesan commissions dealing with social concerns (e.g., peace, hunger, refugees, alcohol and drugs) should be urged to work with counterpart groups in the ELCA and to share resources and coordinate action.
  
• In the light of the Lund principle, are there programs that might be aligned, merged or abolished?

Sharing Leadership

• Continue work toward a shared ecclesial strategy: occasional joint meetings of commissions, representatives from each other's churches to sit on ecumenical and other appropriate commissions, representatives to conventions (recommended in pp103, Implications).
  
• Share staff, particularly in the area of parish education between dioceses and synods.
  
• Consider staffing regional centers jointly, encouraging use of resources for both churches.
  
• Hold periodic convocations of all bishops for shared education and mutual consultation.
  
• Seminary deans to arrange student and faculty exchanges.
  
• Expand practice of Lutherans teaching at Episcopal seminaries and vice versa.
  
• Periodic conferences of Lutheran and Episcopal theologians.
  
• Joint programs of continuing education for clergy.
  
• Parish clergy organize regular gatherings for mutual prayer, study, and consultation (recommended in pp100-104, Implications), to welcome new counterparts, and to identify local issues of social justice and human need that can be addressed cooperatively.
  
• When electing a bishop or calling a rector, ask for the participation of other churches and clergy in the self study and search process. Examine and evaluate the ecumenical commitment and record of each candidate.
  
• Encourage your diocesan ecumenical commission to take resolutions to diocesan convention affirming the Lund Principle and the Concordat.

* Paragraph references (pp) to Implications of the Gospel, Swan and Turner, Augsburg, Forward Movement Publications, 1988.