I certainly understand the need to keep the survey to a manageable level but is this yet ANOTHER example of limiting input to clergy. Are once again the laity shut out from input. I might politely point out that throughout the storied history of our synod, it has been the laity that has time and again, brought us back to our doctrinal foundations.

I might even go so far as to suggest that the laity, in the form of day and Sunday School teachers, bible study leaders, and parents at large are perhaps better equipped to answer questions concerning a study of the Small Catechism in the light of changing times because they, more often than active and retired clergy, deal with this on a daily basis.