The Bible is clear on how a person becomes a Christian. When one becomes a Christian, he/she receives salvation. You are saved from spending eternity in Hell. You are saved from living the rest of your life without God. You are saved from being a slave to sin.

     Let's talk for a moment about how you do NOT become a Christian. Some believe that you automatically become a Christian by going to church. That is not correct. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than going to McDonalds makes you a hamburger. You don't become a Christian by keeping the 10 Commandments or by being baptized. There is nothing you can do or work you can perform to earn your salvation.

     The reason you need to be saved and become a Christian is because you have sinned. Romans 3:23 says, "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God." This means everyone has sinned or done things wrong. Romans 6:23 tells us what we earn for our sin. "The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Because we can't do anything to earn our forgiveness or salvation, God had to provide a way for us to receive forgiveness for our sins. That is where Jesus comes in. Romans 10:9-10 says, " that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation."

     You become a Christian by faith. Ephesians 2:8-9 says, "For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast." That means you can be saved only because of God's grace not because of anything you have done. The work of salvation is beyond any human accomplishment.

If you are ready to ask God to forgive your sins and to commit your life to Jesus, all you need to do is beleive and ask. To do that you simply say a prayer. Read the prayer below and if you truly mean it, you will have received your salvation.

Dear God,

I know I am a sinner. Please forgive me of my sins. Come into my life now. Help me to change my life and to live for you. Amen.

If you prayed that prayer, CONGRATULATIONS!!! It is important that you get involved in a church and begin to grow in your relationship with God. To get started on this, please e-mail me at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and tell me what you have done.

There is one simple thing you can do to help out Highlands Baptist Church from a financial standpoint. Please change your favorite search engine from whatever you are using to Goodseach.com. Our church has registered with Goodsearch. Every time you use Goodsearch for any type of internet search our church earns 1 penny. If you average 15 searches each day you can earn our church $4.50 per month. The more people that use goodsearch, the more we earn. Please help us out with this.

To change your home page, you click on Tools at the top of your Internet Explorer browser window. From there, click on Internet Options. In the window by "Home page" type in www.goodsearch.com, then click apply at the bottom of the window. Refresh your homepage and you should be directed to goodsearch.com.  Then type Highlands Baptist Church into the box under "Who do you goodsearch for?" click verify and you should be all set to go.

Goodsearch is powered by Yahoo!search and is very good and a high quality search engine.  For all of your online purchases, begin with www.goodshop.com. A percentage of much of what you order and buy online will also go to our church.

Happy searching and happy shopping.