Czuba: Follow Jesus’ example

MANY people today abide by political correctness more than the Word of God, Fr Jan Czuba says.
Czuba, during the NBC TV and radio Sunday Eucharist, said: “We need to follow Jesus Christ, not political corrections.
“Political correctness is one of the biggest challenges in today’s world.
“Quite often people follow the political correctness instead of following Jesus Christ, and we have to speak the truth of Christ’s love without being hypocritical or disrespectful.
“You must never remain silent in the face of evil for the fear of being politically incorrect.
“Jesus taught us to love and respect others, without encouraging sinful behaviour.
“We need to be kind, charitable, honest, forgiving but very clear in specking out our Christian convictions as Jesus was when He spoke at the Synagogues at Nazareth.”
Czuba said quite often people are afraid to say the truth because politically, it is incorrect.
“They do not want to upset the leaders,” he said.
“But prophet Jeremiah had the courage to say to his leaders, you are wrong, if you do not change your behaviour, the country will disappear and we will be driven to slavery, but the leaders did not want to listen, they want to stay the way they were, they want to follow their own view of life and they were worshiping God only by lips, not by heart before they were taken to slavery for many years.”
Czuba said PNG had different types of leaders, and sometimes, our people are willing to compromise the belief in Christ, their own core values for the sake to being politically correct.
“Jesus needs you and me to have the courage to be a Christian filled with the power of the Holy Spirit and what is wrong, we have to say is incorrect, we have to have the courage to heal what is sick in our society,” he said.
Czuba pointed that the story of Jesus’s rejection by his own people is also a story about how we often ignore and reject God.
“Do we realise that we expel Jesus from our lives every time we chose between good and bad and we chose to sin?” he said.
“That is the time we reject Jesus or God in our lives.”