Jesus said, "By their fruits ye shall know them."

My priest in Sydney took me down King St after chapel one day and on the way back from getting groceries he broke off a banana and gave it to a homeless looking bloke sitting at the bus stop. "May God bless you my brother," my priest told him. My Dad always told me to be kind to the unfortunate. "We do not know the time of his return or his manner. What if the bloke on the corner is Jesus?" my Dad told me.
So I was at a Bible study one night and I was talking about my Sydney Church and my interlocutor said, "Yes, but do they preach the Gospel?" I related the story of the banana and I said, "They not only preach it, they ACT on it."
PM Howard makes a big show of kneeling and blessing himself when the TV cameras are on him at a Church function because he knows the value of the image - Matthew, 23:28 "On the outside you appear to people as righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness". He is having an each way bet on the hanging of Saddam Hussein. Unlike the Pope who has urged clemency, PM Howard has said it is justice for the Iraqi people. That does not sound like the ACT of a Gospel believer. That does not taste like a banana.