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lay people interviewed in one of these churches. He affirmed that in his church help is given to the poor, but there is no \u2018concern, or social change\u2019 or anything like that. The leadership is involved in preaching verbally the message of the gospel (L1IVF). So in their discourse, the majority of the NPS hardly take on themes such as injustice, impunity, corruption, environmental problems or poverty. They concentrate on preaching the gospel but do not give due importance to social sins. Some lay people comment that \u2018preaching is not about society it is directed at the individual\u2019 (L6FCG). This emphasis does not leave much space for discussion of Guatemala\u2019s structural problems. They give more space to the problems of the individual, the family, healing or liberation from spirits or financial concerns. The majority of the NPS do not discuss or teach openly about social problems.\u000ATo sum up, Neo-Pentecostals emphasize individual spiritual salvation and believe that new converts are raw material to change the nation. Only the senior ESH pastor talks openly about poverty and why the Evangelical revival has not impacted the country. Most of NPS emphasise the idea of winning the country for Christ in order to bring social transformation. Paul Freston from a sociological perspective affirms that \u2018One must also avoid a tendency on the part of some academics, usually expressed implicitly through a choice of negative epithets, to regard the traditional Evangelical expansionist impulse, couched in the language of \u201Cwinning\u201D society by converting its members, as inherently politically dangerous\u2019 (2001: 289).\u000A4. Social responsibility\u000AHow do the NPS perceive social responsibility? How do they assume this in their day-to- day affairs? How do they project it? The paradox that they show in the way that they express the church\u2019s mission is also reflected in the posture they take with regard to social responsibility. The majority of the pastors use religious language to talk about social issues. Most of them do not give due importance, infrastructure and financial resources to\u000A186\u000A