Confident Christianity
(10 Week Online Training Course)
Leader
Peter Saunders was trained as a general surgeon before serving with the Africa Inland Mission in Kenya. He served full-time as Chief Executive with Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organisation with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. From 2006 to 2018 he also served as Campaign Director of the Care Not Killing Alliance, a coalition of over 40 organisations in the UK promoting palliative care and opposing euthanasia. Since January 2019 he has been CEO of the ICMDA (International Christian Medical and Dental Association) which brings together national associations of doctors and dentists in over 80 countries worldwide. His work has involved leadership training, teaching evangelism and ethics, medical mission, writing, editing, and media work.
Overview
The Confident Christianity Training Course is a ten-week online interactive course, which aims to help Christian leaders understand the non-Christian mindset and persuasively and confidently share your faith in the way the Apostles did it – in understandable language, in a safe place and with the opportunity for discussion. The programme is designed, once caught, to be taught and multiplied to others.
Topics Covered
Making a worldview diagnosis
What makes Christianity unique
The journey to faith
Exposing presuppositions
God’s role and ours in evangelism
The gospel message
Apostolic models of sharing it
Dealing with our fears
Answering difficult questions
The best reasons for belief
Starting with the truth they know
Avoiding circular arguments
Dealing with relativism
The elements of successful evangelism
The faith decision
The course is run for 8 to 12 people in English, with the goal of working with leaders who go through the course to eventually offer a 10-week course in their own country language.
The ten-week-long training track will involve weekly interactive Zoom sessions starting in January 2024. Prior to each session, trainees will need to watch two short training videos, read a short article and undertake a short written assignment.
Trainees will need to set aside about two to three hours a week for this track (75-90 minutes virtual meeting, 30 minutes watching the two training videos, 15 minutes reading and 30 minutes writing assignment).
The course starts in January 2024 and is offered free of charge.
Have questions, contact Magdalena Szyszkowska at initiatives@euroleadership.org.