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governments openly, and if the spiritual warfare that they wage against spiritual hosts will adopt the role of historical mediation which would allow them to confront the unjust structures in society. Also some NPS are identified with the liberal economic system because they consider this system to be the closest to the values of the Christianity. Francis Fukayama, as a prophet of this economic system, states that history reached its end with the arrival of capitalism (1992: 387-417). The question is will the NPS be able to distance themselves from the presuppositions of the market and take on a critical attitude towards this challenge? The identification on the part of some pastors with the principles of market economy without using the necessary theological filters exposes them to their assumptions.\u000AF. THE CHALLENGE OF POVERTY\u000AWhat do the NPS think about poverty? What worries them about it? They have different opinions and approaches to the problem. They do not usually discuss this subject from a sociological perspective. Most of them refer to this problem in religious terms. For example, they indicate that the poverty is due to the ignorance that the people have of their human potential as God\u2019s children. Its main cause is the human sin. The Pastor of IFD notes that:\u000APoverty has its root in the lack of a clear identity of the person as a created being. If people knew their value as beings created in the image of God and their human potential, they would not embark in drugs, alcoholism, deceit and so many forms of the easy life. If people could discover who they are and could prepare themselves then poverty would disappear. The poverty is the result of sin and the consequences of the evil in human heart. This cause can only changed through the gospel message of repentance (P5IFD).\u000ATheir vision explains the spiritual dimension of poverty, but leaves out the socio- political and economic factors of Guatemalan reality. LDG Church leaders attended mostly by poor families, emphasize a similar idea. They think that \u2018the new faith in Christ\u2019 is the key to leaving poverty. For those believers it is not only theory, but a real experience. They affirm that members of their congregations have managed to surpass themselves\u000A217\u000A