The opinion of these fathers is that a thing should not be believed or accepted because someone of the fathers either thought or said so, unless he proves what he says from the canonical Scriptures, that the fathers could have thought differently from what truth demands, and that we have been called by the Lord to that liberty that we may freely judge about the writings of any and all persons according to the canonical writings, and that when we disapprove of anything in the writings of the fathers which does not agree with the Scripture and reject it, this is done without rashness but by a just judgment, without injury or disgrace to the fathers, without prejudice to their honor, and with their consent, and this is done by those also who are incomparably inferior to the fathers.

Martin Chemnitz, Examination of the Council of Trent, I:261

But we are free to utilize tradition…or not.

We hang on to the traditions that glorify the gospel of Jesus Christ, as long as they hold meaning for the worshiper. If they lose their meaning then they can become rote, and can detract from the Word.

For us, our traditions help to keep us from floating too high up in the stratosphere of our own desires and self-eminated spirituality, and help keep us tethered to the great cloud of saints that have gone before us.