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values on socio-economic life and relates those values with the capitalist system. Ben\u00EDtez says in his book 40 Virtudes que lo Har\u00E1n Triunfar, that there is an urgent need to revise certain values which have done a lot of damage to all Latin Americans. He underlines the following, saying that:\u000AAs Latin Americans we need to pass through a process of unlearning and learning again certain vital values. We need to unlearn because we are suffering from bad habits and perceptions such as unpunctuality, the practice of injustice, relative \u2018honesty\u2019, unfaithfulness, bribery, generalized corruption, fatalism, to mention a few. We need to learn, because we need to modify profoundly our habits and attitudes to replace the relativity, become more honest, of good reputation, integral and virtuous (2002: 12).\u000AThe NPS also consider that some of the Guatemalan vices affect Evangelicals too. This has not always been the case as previously Evangelicals were respected as workers who were honourable and responsible. In the past, the Evangelicals got jobs faster than the Catholics because of their good testimony and trustworthiness. But now the NPS and their members recognize that a cultural change is also necessary in the Evangelical world. An associate pastor said that there are some Evangelicals who still lie, bribe or take bribes (A8ESH). The researcher was able to observe that the Neo-Pentecostal pastors and lay people have a tendency to assimilate certain values or concepts of the secular world [especially with regard to the economic marketing systems], which they apply both in their personal lives and as a way of conceiving the church and her mission as will demonstrated later. In some cases these values have improved the day to day administration of the church, but they also expose them to criteria which do not necessarily correspond to the nature of the church as a community of the Kingdom of God.\u000AThe report about the state of the Evangelical Guatemalan church carried out in 2003 reveals that 75 per cent of the Evangelicals do not have a solid foundation for their faith, especially Evangelicals who come from the rural areas. This report shows the urgency of making disciples in an Evangelical church which grows numerically but not so much qualitatively. It underlines as urgent and essential the task of making disciples to form a strong church (SEPAL 2003: 3, 15). Caballeros says that this situation is due to lack of discipleship, and because of this, he notes that \u2018Evangelism without discipleship is\u000A 201\u000A