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.