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and member of the FCG, emphasizes the need \u2018to avoid being in debt, disciplining consumer spending and the value of saving\u2019. He exhorts families to cultivate a habit of saving to become prosperous. He affirms that \u2018money which we don\u2019t spend will stay in our house and we can consider it as our capital\u2019 This view about work and saving is expressed by the pastors who come from the higher middle and high class people as well as the lower middle class and the working class. This vision about work ethics is different from the theology of prosperity posture of some preachers of the wealth and health Gospel. Prosperity comes from God\u2019s hand in blessing alongside hard work and savings.\u000ATo recap, the NPS have a positive concept of work and promote a productive life in the economic and social realms. Their ideas also echo with the Protestant work ethics laid out by Max Weber. They do not necessarily base prosperity on predestination or puritan Protestantism. Critics of the prosperity gospel affirm that it is a message which comes from the United States from a context of individualism, materialism, hedonism and consumer spending (Padilla 1997: 151). From the NPS\u2019 perspective prosperity of the believer is the result of God\u2019s blessing and arduous and disciplined work. Finally, it needs to be said that NPS hardly ever focus on the unemployment issue, lack of favourable wages or other labour problems. Some of these pastors in fact believe that Christians should not participate in workers syndicates because they consider that they are corrupt and are only seeking their own benefit.\u000A5. Conversion and life improvement\u000AFor the NPS salvation which conversion brings not only provides eternal life but a better life here and now. They are convinced that conversion brings with it spiritual and material development to the new Christian.105 Conversion, affirms one ICV associate pastor brings internal and external changes to the life of the person. It is a \u2018change which produces a re-\u000A105David Martin points out that there is a tendency in sociological circles to interpret conversion among Latin American evangelicals as a part of the conspiracy theory. They affirm that the conversion of millions of Latin Americans can be explained by the subvention of North American imperialism. He underlines that those that assume this explication do so to avoid the task of sociological revision (1992: 9).\u000A 205\u000A