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11).90 This form of \u2018embarking in new projects\u2019 is part of the way they do things to train, encourage and commit their people. This leadership style among the Neo-Pentecostals is seen in the way that they present their vision, how they organize and administrate, develop work in teams, and implement technical and strategic support to carry out their activities and missionary projects. They have strict control over their work agendas, evaluation processes and control of their goals, sessions with the teams and the drive to continue projects. In the visits the researcher observed in the majority of the churches a huge work load, dynamic and organized teams, all supported by the latest equipment and technology in a comfortable environment within a context of work and brotherhood. They meet to pray and chat about their projects, but also they make room to eat together. The pastor of IVF invited the researcher to have breakfast with members of his leadership team. Of course, the relationship among pastors of other NPCs is seen more throughout some religious events.\u000AThis leadership and organizational style contrasts with the model of the traditional pastor who gives a good part of their time to counselling and pastoring and administering the church through a council of elders. These churches are of course exposed to internal fights between the council of elders and the pastors for different reasons, and they do not necessarily have the best administrative resources.\u000AAccording to the NPS their way of doing things improves the administration of their churches and ministry. Some critics of NEOP comment that this vision exposes the church to managerial market economy criteria. If this is so then, in what measure does this managerial vision change the community character of the church? Up to what point has this management criteria been placed over the pastoral nature of the church? In what measure do these pastors, from their managerial platform, differentiate between market economy criteria, their pastoral task?\u000A90 The Associate Pastor of the \u201CIglesia Cristiana Verbo\u201D in Zone 7 of Guatemala City pastors the church while at the same time he administers a business which supplies articles for the shoe trade (A4ICV).\u000A 173\u000A


































































































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