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openness, enthusiasm and a disposition not only to speak about social problems but also to get involved in some area of service of the local church.\u000Ab. Weak social impact\u000ANot all of the laity or pastors have the same openness and vision to talk about social problems. One lay person expressed that their church\u2019s interest is more oriented to the task of evangelism. Another informant affirmed that in the FCG the emphasis is \u2018evangelism and making disciples, the question of social responsibility is not our fundamental objective\u2019 (L6FCG). Another lay person recognized that the church must recover its social responsibility because it is called to do so. It is necessary to get involved, \u2018because we are called to transform society. In the past the church has not kept this commandment\u2019 (L2ESH).\u000AOn the other hand, a member of the IVF recognized that his church takes little notice of social problems. \u2018In my church there is only slight preoccupation for this issue. We are in the standard category of churches that do not have much concern about those areas [...] there is a medical clinic that takes care of the members and helps the poor, but there is no real social awareness, social changes or anything like that\u2019 (L1IVF).These opinions show that the NPL do not all share the same perspectives and that their interest does not mean that they handle the subject with ease. One of the observers makes an important critical comment about these churches:\u000AThey are interested in these fields but they would not necessarily know how to approach them neither do they have defined positions with regard to social, political and economic subjects, and there is no ideological project behind their thinking. They are interested in social issues as simple sociological data, as the people who attend these churches are generally professionals. Many or are university graduates, and some are even university students, and as such they are more conscious of these phenomena (IO9).\u000AA Jesuit theologian and philosopher does not give much credit to the Guatemalan Neo-Pentecostalism within and outside of the Catholic Church. He emphasizes that \u2018There is interest in the changes in private morality but not in the profound problems of society\u2019 (IO3). From a different perspective Stoll affirms that Evangelical leaders in Guatemala\u000A253\u000A