Holy Trinity Church, Wensley

Of Holy Trinity Church at Wensley at Wensleydale I have already written. It suits very well my taste for church visits: left open, historical and large. Furthermore, it is unlikely to have any services of worship when I call, preventing inspections, for no regular worship is held there.

 

 

Here is a church building with a rich and extensive past, but what of its future? Will it remain an attractive decoration in the dales, a strange relic from another world, indefinitely kept open for the curious and inquisitive? It has a past, but a doubtful future. Much as I love yesteryear, our God is the God of the living, not the dead. The Church is a worldwide, cosmic community of the redeemed, not a collection of ancient stones, dim memories and moth-eaten fabrics. If you live in the past, you will die in the past; let us therefore look unto Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who is not dead but alive, and who rules from timeless eternity.