Eternal what?

There are many thoughts that might initially come to mind in relation to the “Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer” (see this article), now under construction after a £40 million fundraising target was met.

We might, quite apart from anything else, naturally feel somewhat cynical about the whole idea – an understandable reaction, perhaps, given the cynicism-soaked era in which we live. We are all marinaded in a media-enhanced weary distrust of most things at the moment.

We might, also, feel somewhat suspicious on the grounds that the project does not originate from “our” part of evangelicalism. It is hard, for example, to imagine the FIEC, Evangelical Movement of Wales, Free Church of Scotland, Co-Mission, ReNew, Presbyterians, Grace Baptists and so on, among many other groupings, embarking upon such a scheme.