One thing, though, and I could not be more serious, I really hope that people are coming to Christ for His sake alone, and sadly I speak from my own personal experience.
"My fear is that there is a strand of prosperity teaching in the Assembly of God which could unravel them if people started to believe that Jesus was just a formula to get rich," says Tim Costello.
Do they love Christ, or is the Prosperity "Name it and Claim it" teachings? Are they in it to serve God, or to try and get God to serve them?
I mention this in humility and Christian love, because I've seen some real ship wrecks in the ministries that stress "prosperity" to the exclusion of most other things.
The pasty middle aged Peter Costello is in good company. French cynics scorned the words of Bernard of Clairvaux, a pasty middle aged man, as he preached a Crusade against the infidels whose actions defiled the Holy Land. Clairvaux made history, and it looks as though Costello is making a little history himself.
From what I've heard it's the real deal which is why the left and some of the more 'traditional' churches (ie those churches drifting to the left and loosing worshippers over things like allowing gay priests) are worried. Any large scale growth in religion in Australia is a big thing.