Treasuring Christ: Transforming Your Heart's Desire (Leader's Guide)

This is the Leader's Guide for Unit 2, Treasuring Christ: Transforming Your Heart’s Desires of the four-unit series, Discovery: A Biblical Support Group Curriculum for Men Pursuing Sexual Integrity. A free Participant's Guide is also available for Unit 2.

Harvest USA’s Discovery series brings the power of the Gospel into men’s struggles with sexuality. Drawing on over 35 years of discipleship through biblical support groups, Discovery makes Harvest USA’s discipleship model accessible to local church ministry. Participants dive deeply into Scripture, learning to apply the promises and comforts of the Gospel beyond their behavior to the deepest issues of their hearts. Their personal encounter with God’s Word is strengthened and expressed in the context of small group discussion, where they learn to live the Gospel, giving and receiving truth and mercy together.

The entire series consists of 4 units with 13 lessons each. Designed to be used in order, these units guide participants through a course of Bible study that systematically draws out personal discovery of how the Gospel transforms shaping life experiences, controlling heart desires, functional beliefs, and resultant behaviors. A corresponding Leaders Guide is available for each unit, with notes added to help group leaders facilitate with skill and grace.

Unit 2, Treasuring Christ: Transforming Your Heart’s Desires focuses primarily on the deeper desires of our fallen hearts that, apart from transforming work of the Holy Spirit, will lead to idolatrous pursuits of sin. This unit will not only show men how Jesus transforms and redirects our desires, but it will also illuminate the profound reality that at our core we are all much more alike than we are different.

Other units in this series:

Unit 1, New Hope in Christ: Bringing Gospel Identity to Bear on Your Story starts with our gospel model for change that forms the structure of the entire curriculum. Unit 1 then takes a few lessons to establish a biblical understanding of the human heart. The second half will help men bring new gospel clarity to a variety of past and present experiences and situations that have exerted strong shaping influence over our hearts.

Unit 3, Seeking the Mind of Christ: Renewing Your Functional Worldview addresses a fundamental struggle for every believer: What we profess to believe about God and life often does not line up with what we functionally believe in our hearts. This unit challenges men to look deeply into what they truly believe, because transformed living will only come from a renewed mind in Christ.

Unit 4, Progress and Perseverance in Christ: Seeing Real Growth and Change shows how our hearts, circumstantial influences, desires, and beliefs all bear out in either good or bad fruit in our lives. This unit focuses on the good fruit men should expect and work towards through their union with Christ.