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Rector’s Reflections

We live in a time of constant and rapid change. New technologies replace the old daily, cell phones and computers are obsolete long before they wear out, and people have a tendency to believe newer is better. While newer is sometimes better in technology I refute its value in theology and religion. Truth is timeless or it is not truth. Values are eternal or they have no value. Some churches embrace the new. I pray for them and wish them all good things, but I, with Holy Trinity Anglican Orthodox Church, will follow the tried and proven ways J. C. Ryle called, the “old paths.” They are the faith and practice revealed by Christ; given to the Apostles; recorded in the Holy Bible; and preserved in the Creeds, the Articles of Religion, and the Book of Common Prayer. As Bishop Ryle wrote, calling them, “evangelical teaching:”

“I see no reason for giving them up. No doubt other schools of thought produce great outward effects on mankind, gather large congregations, attain great popularity, and … make a great show of religion. I see it all, and I am not surprised. It is exactly what a study of human nature by the light of the Bible would lead me to expect. But for real inward effects on hearts, and outward effects on lives, I see no teaching so powerful as thorough, genuine, Evangelical teaching.”

“It is not merely true and good up to a certain point, and then defective and needing additions, as some tell us; it is true and good all round, and needs no addition at all,” (John Charles Ryle, Old Paths, pp. viii-ix).

Your servant in Christ,

Dennis Campbell

The Rt. Rev. R. Dennis Campbell, Vicar, Holy Trinity Anglican Church,

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