Description The writer entertains the hope that this document may be useful in the following ways: 1. To the colleges - in developing their "self-consciousness" as colleges of the Church. 2. To faculty and administration (present and prospective) - in understanding and accepting their role in a college of the Church. 3. To supporting synods - in understanding the function of the Church-related college and of the college-related Church. 4. To the Lutheran Church in America - in defining its relationship to education generally, to higher education in particular, and most especially to the colleges related to it and its constituent bodies. 5. To the Board of College Education and Church Vocations - in its continuing promotion of sound and effective understanding of the Church and of the colleges and of their relation to one another, and in its development of programs and policies that will strengthen the witness of the Church in higher education.