As faculty in a seminary of the church, we are especially conscious of the importance of intentional spiritual formation for pastoral ministry, the diaconate, and other forms of church leadership. Seminary students must receive the encouragement, urging, and instruction they need in order to find a stable and enlivening pattern of spiritual practice capable of sustaining them over the long haul in life and ministry.
-The LTSS Faculty, “Spirituality and Spiritual Formation”
Here are four questions:
How will you be spiritually sustained during your years in seminary and over the long haul in public ministry?
What is the spiritual life?
Why does Southern Seminary emphasize intentional spiritual formation?
Where do you begin?
I wish they’d been concerned enough about spiritual formation at my seminary to have had something in place.