Our Purpose

It shall be the purpose of Highland Baptist Church to do the work committed to the Church by Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord. To that end, our objective on this earth is to share God's love through Christ as a committed fellowship of baptized believers empowered by the Holy Spirit to:

• Proclaim the gospel of abundant life through Jesus Christ;
• Teach the Bible as the source of authority for Christian faith and practice;
• Assemble regularly for worship and the praise of God;
• Develop a nurturing community of faith in which all persons are welcome;
• Minister to the spiritual, emotional, and physical needs of persons in our community and around the world;
• Evangelize the lost and unchurched;
• Participate in a world mission outreach through the Cooperative Program with the Southern Baptist Convention, the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina and the Raleigh Baptist Association.

Having been brought by faith and by God’s grace to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior, and on the profession of our faith, having been baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, and by the influence of His spirit to give ourselves up to Him, we do now with God’s help most solemnly covenant:

• That we will walk together in love as brothers and sisters in Christ;
• That we will exercise Christian care and concern for each other;
• That in all things we will preserve and protect the true function of the Church;
• That we will not forsake the assembling of ourselves together for prayer and worship;
• That we will faithfully and sacrificially support the missions and ministries of this Church with our tithes and offerings;
• That we will continue steadfastly in prayer for ourselves, for others, and for the enterprises of the Kingdom of God:
• That we will share each other’s joys, and endeavor, with tenderness and compassion, to bear each other’s burdens and sorrows;
• That we will earnestly endeavor to bring up our children and others under our care in the nurture and admonition of the Lord;
• That we will seek the help of God to enable us to live holy lives, denying ungodliness and every worldly lust;
• That we will strive by example and effort to lead persons to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and through our lives seek to live to the glory of Him who has called us out of darkness into His marvelous light.