A common, and wide spread misconception is the misunderstanding of salvation. Salvation, or conversion after repentance, is when one is baptized into the body of Christ, by the Holy Spirit, and has become a member of it. It in effect, is not a joining of a local church, (by which we should obtain learning and fellowship), but a part of THE church, Christ's Body, which is Spiritual. Here is where a lot of believers think that conversion is the "end all". But it is just the beginning, not of our salvation, that has already taken place, but our walk of obedience, or the working out and proving of our faith. To not bare any fruits of righteousness or to walk according to the world or flesh nature, is not what God intends for his people.