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messages, healing campaigns, worship concerts, and practical advice on healthcare, family problems, and general news. These programmes send out messages of salvation, consolation, moral values, and practical advice for the audience. Some programmes reflect a North American vision and lifestyle, and little space is dedicated to Guatemalan cultural values. Likewise their content gives little attention to the social, political and economic problems of the country.\u000ASmith strongly criticizes Evangelical media in his study on the theme in Central America. He states that they provide entertainment, not religious instruction, and therefore do not fulfil the pastoral needs of the people (1990: 303-304). In general terms, the researcher agrees with Smith\u2019s observation, but he has also observed that some of the programmes shown on TV networks and channels contribute to the spiritual and pastoral needs of the audience in a significant way. Some programmes promote the gospel of prosperity.\u000ASummarizing, the training that the NPCs provide is incipient and developing. They do not have a structured theology as they are new churches and value the charismatic experience over written doctrine. Nonetheless, common points can be perceived throughout their teachings. The following elements can be found: traces of Calvinism regarding salvation, basic doctrine of Pentecostal pneumatology, elements of dispensationalism and post-millennial eschatology, and their own Neo-Pentecostal emphasis on manifestations of the Spirit, entrepreneurial organization, and spontaneous liturgy, subjectivity of the Christian experience, apostolic reform, \u2018prosperity theology\u2019, and spiritual warfare. They also provide teachings and moral values to instruct people about their personal, family, work and ecclesiastical obligations, and help them confront the challenges of everyday life. Generally the NPCs do not relate the content of their teaching and biblical materials with the critical social issues of the country.\u000AAn observer pointed out that the NPCs have a strong Pentecostal influence and thus calls them \u2018refined Pentecostalism\u2019 (IO2). That is they are Pentecostals but with emphases\u000A140\u000A