Confident Christianity
The Confident Christianity Training Track is a ten-week interactive course, originally designed by the UK Christian Medical Fellowship and later adapted for ICMDA by Dr Peter Saunders.
The course aims to help you understand the non-Christian mindset and share your faith confidently and articulately in the way the Apostles did it – in understandable language, in a safe place and with the opportunity for discussion. It is a programme which once caught can be taught to others.
It covers such topics as:
- 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
We run each course for 8 to 12 people at a time for ICMDA regions and language groups in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
Each ten-week course is led by a small group of facilitators coached by the principal trainer Dr Peter Saunders.
The ten-week long training track will involve weekly interactive Zoom sessions. 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).
Training opportunities
Portuguese Cohorts 2025
Online Classes started in March 2025
Wednesday 12 MARCH 14:00 Pm São Paulo
Friday 14 MARCH 19:30 Pm São Paulo
Saturday 15 MARCH 10:00 am São Paulo
In-Person Classes planned for
São Paulo, São José dos Campos, Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte
Taster - Online
"Get To Know the Course"
Friday, Feb 21 2025 - 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM (São Paulo)
OR
Saturday, Feb 22 2025 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (São Paulo)
Further cohorts are being planned; click here to register your interest.
Contact a coordinator in your region to discuss further opportunities:
APSA - The Americas & Portuguese-Speaking Africa
EEM - Europe, Eurasia and Middle East & North Africa
SSA - Sub-Saharan Africa
ESSO - East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia & Oceania
