Last year a close friend invited me to accompany her to a church service that I don’t normally attend. Mike Pilavachi was speaking. I’d never heard of him before but he is a co-founder of Soul Survivor  and apparently he’s very well known in evangelical circles in the UK.

The theme of his message was “What is that in your hand?”

He based his message on the miracle of the feeding of the five thousand in the gospel of John 6:5-13

A large crowd of people had come to hear Jesus speak. After a while, the people were hungry, but there was...