The three target audiences of the Center's activities are students on the Dallas Seminary campus, pastors and vocational Christian workers, and business leaders in the workplace, lay leaders in local churches, and other believers interested in impacting their communities for Christ. On the Dallas Seminary campus, the Center oversees the four-hour Spiritual Formation program. This program gives Th. M. students the experience of community in which to pursue personal assessment and character development to help develop their own life vision. The program consists of four one-hour Spiritual Formation courses which focus on process, not content.
Formation carries the idea of ongoing development.
A goal of the seminary is to help students grow spiritually and become godly men and women. Therefore these classes should be viewed as a laboratory for each person's total experience at the seminary. Although content is included in each course, the orientation is toward practice and action. The courses are to be taken consecutively. M. student is placed in a small group of approximately eight persons who meet together weekly during the school year.