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2. Theological influences\u000AChurch growth theology is a strategy which has been central in Neo-Pentecostal numerical expansion. Authors such as Dr. Paul Yonggi Cho and Peter Wagner have influenced these churches as well as the Evangelical church at large. Pastor Cho\u2019s books about prayer were distributed in the \u2018Jesus is Lord of Guatemala\u2019 campaign which the ESH church promoted. They printed fifty thousand copies which were distributed among the Guatemalan pastors and laity in 1990. The ESH senior pastor is a member of the Council of Directors of Church Growth International.\u000AWagner and Cho visited the country with other Pentecostal pastor from Latin- America. The churches of LDG started family groups following the experience of the Salvadorian Elim Church and later adopted the Korean model (Guill\u00E9n 1997:9). The IVF and other churches adopted the growth model of the \u2018ladder to success\u2019 of the Colombian pastor Cesar Castellanos. This pastor adopted Castellano\u2019s G12 as his strategy for numerical growth (P6IVF).\u000AAccording to Pastor Vladimiro V\u00E1squez, the G12 is the most powerful tool for the training of leaders known as \u2018the ladder to success\u2019. This model includes the following stages: win a new believer, consolidate and look after the new Christian (including going to the encounters) and disciple the new Christian for life and mission. Finally, the stage comes when these recruited new Christians are sent out to disciple others through means of the groups of twelve.63 All the NPCs have adopted this model with their own modifications. [In Chapter three more details will given about these groups].\u000AAnother strong doctrine among the Neo-Pentecostals has to do with prophecy and prophetic words. Prophecy is a usual practice in the Pentecostal world. However in the Neo-Pentecostal context it acquires a different meaning. They refer to \u2018Prophetic word\u2019 which has to do with the declaration of texts or promises from the bible. In this way they\u000A63 Summary of the explication given by pastor Vladimiro V\u00E1squez of the \u2018Visi\u00F3n de Fe\u2019 church which is an adaptation of the \u2018Model of the twelve\u2019 strategy for growth. See info@visiondefe.com Accessed el 11-01- 2006.\u000A 109\u000A