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self and personal value provides a strong sense of rights and citizenship, while on the other hand they do not often constitute a major presence in social movements\u2019 (cited in Martin 2002: 88).\u000AIn the third place, the researcher found that not all the pastors relate the mission of the church to social responsibility. That is to say, it is not always due to a question of ambivalence of the speech, but rather to a lack of greater commitment with the social challenge of the mission. Although they perceive the social problems they do not always relate them to the task of mission. They affirm that mission includes the social area but in practise they do not always give the attention and resources that it deserves. Their focus of mission concentrates on numerical growth.\u000AFinally, M\u00EDguez Bonino says that the problem of the paradox runs deeper. He says that \u2018it has to do with the relation between linear logic of the \u201Cillustrated\u201D rationality and the rationality of the symbolic that include \u201Cmany voices\u201D that comes nearer to the \u201Crationality of the life\u201D which the town people live\u2019. He notices that \u2018to try to reduce the second to the first runs the risk of sterilizing experience\u2019 (1995a: 73-74). Bearing in mind this ambiguity, we proceed to examine the principal ideas of the NPS about their thought and social role.\u000A2. Vision of the church\u000AThe NPS believe that the church is the \u2018community of believers\u2019 who confess Jesus Christ as their personal saviour both in the universal dimension as well as a local one.94 Their definition is usually based on the first century church described in the book of Acts. They appear to distance themselves from the concept of the institutional church such as would be found in the historic denominations. They consider themselves to be a \u2018renewal movement\u2019. According to their pastors the Neo-Pentecostal church came into being as a\u000A294 This concept acquires the same meaning but is expressed in distinct ways in the following documents. \u2018La vida en la iglesia\u2019. Manual de Discipulado Iglesia el Shaddai pp. 18-21. \u2018Compartiendo con la Nueva Familia\u2019 Manual de Discipulado. Misi\u00F3n Cristiana Evang\u00E9lica Lluvias de Gracias pp. 10-12. Declaraci\u00F3n Doctrinal Iglesia de Jesucristo la Familia de Dios.\u000A 179\u000A