"A local church should be a community of new creatures. Through our love and obedience, we give powerful testimony to the radical truth of the gospel. The world can write off a single Christian as an aberration. Put two or three Christians together, and it's harder to write them off. Put five, ten, fifty, a hundred Christians living together in gracious, loving community, and you have a message that cannot be ignored.  "Unfortunately, the opposite is also true. When churches look more like the world than Christ, we effectively preach a different gospel." -- Michael Lawrence, Conversion: How God Creates a People   Samahan n'yo kami na pag-usapan ang mga bagay-bagay na may kinalaman sa kahalagahan ng local church at sa disenyo ng Diyos para sa church.  Sa Episode #6 ng Church Matters, pag-uusapan natin kung bakit napakahalaga ng "biblical understanding of conversion" for building healthy churches. Ano nga ba ang kinalaman nito sa evangelism, church membership, church discipline, discipleship at missions? Ano naman ang magiging negatibong resulta kung ang mga practices natin sa church ay hindi nakakonekta sa itinuturo ng Bibliya kung paanong nagiging "new creation" ang isang tao na makasalanan, spiritually dead, at alipin ng kasalanan?     These are crucial questions na kailangang pag-usapan ng mga pastors/elders, mga church leaders, at mga members ng church. So we invite you to this table talk with Derick Parfan (Baliwag Bible Christian Church), Franco Ferrer (International Baptist Church of Manila), John Hofileña, (Redeemer Christian Church Manila), and Lee Jared Garcia (PhD studies on the New Testament at Bob Jones Seminary in South Carolina, US).