Women can’t be ordained pastors in the LCMS. Might be an LCMC (splinter from the ELCA), but not LCMS.
That is one of the “trip wires” for me and a great many MoLu’s.
Actually there are cases where women in the LCMS are not only preaching but administering sacrament. And I don’t mean as assistants.
They don’t ordain them as pastors instead they sneak thru under the office of “Lay Minister”. Some more creative districts and congregations are using that angle to let women into both preaching and sacrament. They do this by creatively interpreting official documents and statements but it has yet to be stopped so it will continue.
The last convention tried to quietly plug this hole without talking about it but after two revisions to the proposal it was never voted on.
It has some members of the LCMS clergy quite upset.