Daily Faith with Philip Cameron: Special Guest Pastor Eric Camp
About this episode
Pastor Eric Camp of Collective Church in Pascagoula, Mississippi joins Philip Cameron for a candid, Spirit-led conversation about the state of the American church and the urgent need for genuine discipleship. Eric pulls no punches: "This Americanized Christianity, or cultural Christianity, whatever we wanna call it, is not biblical Christianity." Together, Philip and Eric unpack how a convenience-driven, celebrity-saturated church culture has replaced the costly call to follow Jesus — the very theme of Eric's upcoming sermon series, "Follow," launching at Collective Church. The conversation draws on Jesus's own summary of the Law — love God with everything you are and love others as yourself — as the measuring stick the modern church is failing to meet. Philip shares a powerful personal account of being discipled by his father in a Winnebago motor home across America, illustrating that true discipleship demands discipline. Eric echoes this, warning that less than 50% of Americans now identify as followers of Christ, a sobering sign of decades of "doing church" rather than "being church." From college-campus revivals to end-times prophecy and the spiritual warfare intensifying across the West, this episode is a rallying cry for believers to chase Christ, pursue discipleship, and get back to the basics of following Jesus. Visit mycollectivechurch.com to connect with Collective Church.
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Quotes worth sharing
“I believe when you're dying, there's a million angels waiting to hear the whisper of the weakest soul. Jesus, help me. And that's all it takes for them to say, okay, devil, get lost. He is ours.”
“There's no such thing as salvation without repentance. But we have this whole marketed Christianity today where you just say a prayer and give you 10 steps on how to feel better about yourself. And the reality is that we're called to follow Christ — not quote a doctrine and not just attend a church service, but to be the hands and feet of Jesus.”
“He made me go to church. And he said to me, you better understand that your calling is more important than a swimming pool and lying in the sun and goofing off. I hated it then. I look back on it now and I think that's what made me.”
What's Discussed
Pastor Eric Camp of Collective Church in Pascagoula, Mississippi delivers a frank assessment of the American church, arguing that cultural Christianity has replaced genuine biblical faith. He cites a statistic that fewer than 50% of Americans now identify as followers of Christ and warns that decades of "doing church" instead of "being church" have produced widespread spiritual apathy. Eric and Philip discuss Jesus's command to love God and neighbor as the forgotten heartbeat of the faith, the dangers of celebrity Christian culture, and the need to return to discipleship. Philip illustrates discipleship through his own formation under his father in a Winnebago motor home. Both men see signs of hope in college-campus revivals and call the church to pursue Christ above all else.
- American Church Broken: Eric Camp's Assessment
- Cultural Christianity vs. Biblical Faith
- Jesus's Command to Love God and Neighbor
- Discipleship Over Church Attendance
- Philip Cameron's Winnebago Discipleship Story
- Celebrity Culture and Christian Stardom
- End-Times Signs and Spiritual Warfare
- College Campus Revivals and Signs of Hope
Scripture in this episode
Episode Transcript
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Intro
Philip:Hey, my friend. Welcome to Daily Faith Today. My name is Philip Cameron, and I am delighted that you have dropped by. Daily Faith is a program that is here to help you on your walk with the Lord every day. The Bible says He's changing us from glory to glory.
Philip:And we want to bring some of the greatest men and women of God in this country and from around the world to speak into your life, to bring hope, to bring affirmation. A lot of times in our lives — I'll never forget, I've often used this illustration. I was driving my car one day when we lived in Montgomery, Alabama, and I had 1170 on my radio. And this music started up. I'd never heard of him or about him personally. And this music started up and this voice came on the radio, this bombastic voice with talent on loan from God. This is the EIB, Excellence in Broadcasting Network, and I am Rush Limbaugh. And he began to talk thoughts I'd been thinking.
Philip:I didn't know that. I was like, honestly, I had been involved in the thoughts of politics. I moved to America, and I didn't really — if you said to me, what do you believe? I couldn't identify myself until he began to speak. And the moment he began to speak, it was affirming my gut feelings inside. I pulled the car over at the side of the road and sat and listened for three hours and was shouting at the radio and shouting at whoever would listen to me. It just set my brain on fire.
Philip:And I want Daily Faith to be the affirmation in your spirit, your life. You are the call of God. He loves you. The Bible says with a love that will never let you go. You are not holding onto God. He is holding onto you. You are not scratching your way to him. He has built a highway of salvation. I heard a story of a preacher who said that when you're dying, there's a million demons waiting to grab your soul. I don't believe that at all. I believe when you're dying, there's a million angels waiting to hear the whisper of the weakest soul. Jesus, help me. And that's all it takes for them to say, okay, devil, get lost. He is ours. Because God is on your side. If God be for you, the Bible says, who can be against you?
Philip:And all the stuff that you're going through today in your life, it's temporary. It will not last. God will outlast the storm that you are in in your life right now. And that's why Daily Faith is here. And that's why I believe Daily Faith is important. We love ministering to pastors. We started by ministering to pastors during the Covid nonsense, and they closed the churches down. And because I speak in churches and travel across the country, pastors started calling me and saying, hey, what's going on in the church? What's happening?
Philip:And I was spending ages talking to pastors, and one of my sons said, look, why don't you do a one-hour show? Sit down and talk to a pastor. Let him explain what he's doing and they're able to cross-pollinate with each other. And he'd say, oh, I can do that here. I can survive this thing. And that's how it started. And it has broadened since then. A whole bunch of folk that listen to us — we're on television stations as well as networks. We are amazed at how much response you write.
Philip:I love when you write to me. I love when you send us a letter. And if you've got a prayer request, I love praying. I hold your letter in my hand and I believe God with you. So if you have a prayer request, get in contact with us. There's an address coming up on the screen all the time and an 800 number. You avail yourself of Daily Faith. And I believe that we can make this walk smoother. We can make the hills less high as we climb together, because we are in this thing together. So if you like the program, hit share, hit the bell notification — that's the word I always forget. But we'll get a great show today.
Philip:Eric Camp, a dear friend of mine, is a pastor of a great church in Mississippi, and he's gonna be talking to us today. I believe a word from the Lord. So if you love your pastor, give a call and say, hey, watch Daily Faith. Daily Faith TV — it's so simple. And by doing so, you can be a part of the Daily Faith family, because we love you here. You are appreciated here. And we believe that God is gonna give us the victory together in the name of Jesus. I'm delighted you're with us. Welcome to Daily Faith.
Philip:Hello, hello, hello! I'm so glad you are here today and welcome to Daily Faith. My name is Philip Cameron, and if I talk funny, it's because I'm a Scotsman. And I just want you to know I was out the other day — I live in Tennessee of all the places in the world — and all these people talk funny. I'm telling you now, I'm the only person in the state of Tennessee that talks normally. And I forget what I was doing, and the room came to a total silence and all the eyes turned to me. And one of them says, where y'all from? I says, oh, I was born in Scotland. Oh, I just love y'all's accents. And I'm thinking, oh, dear Lord Jesus, these funny people that talk funny. But I hope you understand what I'm saying. This is the best English I'm gonna talk the whole day.
Philip:But we are delighted to have you with us. Daily Faith is a program that has you in heart. We want to bless you and encourage you that God is on your side in the storm you're in just now. Listen, just put out an umbrella and wait the storm out, because the sun's gonna shine and victory's gonna come. And this raw feeling you're feeling in your heart just now is going to pass, because God loves you with a love that will never, ever let you go. Never.
Philip:We have a mission work in Moldova and Ukraine. We started it 35 years ago when I adopted a wee boy in an orphanage in Timișoara, Romania. I had no idea, I had no calling for missionary work. I was busy traveling in America. I was on all the TV stations. I'd written a book on household salvation that had sold 300,000 copies. And my father called me and says, there are babies dying in Romania. It was during the revolution when the Berlin Wall fell down. And in those crazy days, I says, that's got nothing to do with me. Call me the next day. Then our babies are dying. Call me the next day. Then our babies die.
Philip:He had just had cancer surgery and the wound in his back had opened up. It looked like someone had taken a golf club and taken a divot out of his back. And I says, dad, look, you are sick. I'm busy. This is not what we do. So the next day he called me back and he says, well, if you won't go, I'm going by myself. And if I die on the way, it's gonna be your fault. And that was how I was introduced to missions. Got there, found this orphanage with 200 kids, starving, freezing. And in the middle of this madness, I found a wee face that God used to speak to me. And he says, that's your son — clear as I'm talking to you.
Philip:And I went over and I picked him out of his crib. He just had a T-shirt on. He was naked from the waist down. He was covered in waste. They all flip-flopped from crib to crib and carry their own waste with them. It was terrible. And it took me a year to adopt him. And in that year, we put in toilets, put on a new roof, made new beds, put a whole bunch of suggestions in place that they told me was the first that had been done in the whole of Romania.
Philip:But out of that came this passion to help young folk, especially in orphanages. Twenty-five years ago I was asked to go to Moldova and we went there. And in that country, when a girl turns 16, they put them on the streets and traffickers get them, use them 30 to 50 times a day. One girl can make $300,000 a year for the trafficker. It's unbelievable. Most brilliant kids you've ever seen in your life. And so we built houses and we have now a village, a fabulous place. It was built originally for rich people.
Philip:They built this village right on the edge of the largest lake in Moldova for rich folk to have a dacha for the summer. And they poisoned the lake with chlorine, and so the project fell. It sat unfinished for nine years until we bought it. And we finished all the houses and these kids came to us as orphans. Instead of being put on the street, we got them and they came to us. We have house parents there that were once orphans themselves.
Philip:And these amazing kids have turned from orphans to sons and daughters and missionaries. I mean, during this war series that we're having just now with Ukraine and Russia, our kids are in the middle of this thing, loving and caring. They've just had a whole summer of camps, just had amazing outreach — orphans doing the work of the Lord as missionaries. It's crazy. And one of our girls sent us a video the other day. They made a video of her testimony. And I think you'd be blessed by this. Watch this video.
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4, verse 13. If I had given up, I might not have made it this far. Maybe I wouldn't even exist anymore.
My name is Veronica and I come from a family of three children. At the age of six, my mother chose to abandon me. I don't know the exact reason why she left, but she took my older brother with her and I stayed with my younger brother and father. After she left, my dad turned to alcohol. He spent every penny on it, leaving us with nothing. It was very difficult for me because all the household responsibilities fell on my shoulders. I had to take care of him, do the cleaning and cook. At eight years old, I didn't go to school much. And if I went out and played with other children, my father would beat me because I wasn't at home doing the cleaning or cooking for him.
Also, he would wake up at night and demand food from me. Because of this, sometimes I wouldn't eat so that he could eat, because if I didn't give him food, he would beat me until I would bleed. My younger brother would always pull him from behind, begging and crying, don't beat her, daddy, don't beat her. But he would still continue to beat me. For a long time it was very painful for me to watch other children playing in the park with their families. And I would often start crying in the streets while watching them hug or hold hands, because I wanted to feel what it's like to have someone who loves you, who takes care of you, or what it feels like when a mother buys you a dress.
Those feelings overwhelmed me, and I even tried to end my own life many times. But I'm thankful that I am here now and I have another day. When I finished high school, I dreamed of continuing my studies, but there was no way. I desperately searched for help and God answered my prayers through Orphan's Hands. Now I want to say a heartfelt thank you for everything you do to give us a second chance at life. My encouragement to all of you is to never give up no matter what life throws at you. Keep trying, because you'll make it in the end. And don't forget to trust in God, because he blesses us abundantly.
Philip:A message from an orphan girl. Don't forget to trust in God. Her father abused her, beat her, her mother abandoned her. She had no hope until she came to Orphan's Hands. And we have a motto that says, if you are born, God has a plan. We tell them all the time, if you've survived this long, if you've managed to live this long, you are unique, you are special. And we are watching kids like Veronica changing and transforming and growing. We have our kids — some of them are police officers, some of them are teachers, some of them are lawyers, some of them are doctors. One of our girls is now a flight attendant. It's an amazing thing to watch God's hand working.
Philip:First of all, we protect them from being used, because these kids are naive. Someone comes up and offers them a fake job and they don't know any better. And they get in a car and they literally are gone, used 30 to 50 times a day. If she was caught by the traffickers against her will, they would use her 30 to 50 times a day. She would create $300,000 a year for the trafficker. I think if she's worth $300,000 a year to a trafficker, then to a Christian she's worth a dollar a day.
Philip:Everything you've seen, all the videos you just watched of our homes and the expenses of taking these kids — we're taking 25 more kids in the next few days. Every one of them are there because someone like you decided to do something to help. Don't curse the darkness. Don't sit and say, well, this trafficking thing is terrible. Do something to help it. Listen, awareness doesn't work. These kids all know what trafficking is. But when you're offered a job and you've got nowhere to go and you've got no food, you take the risk.
Philip:And I said this yesterday — if I were standing at the back of that trafficker's door, and that wee girl is about to go into the backseat of that car, and I turned to you and said, we can save this girl for a dollar a day, I'm certain most of you would say, for goodness sake, Philip, save her. Please get her out of that car. That's what it takes. The 25 new girls that are coming will have the clothes on their backs, broken hearts, broken dreams, abuse — all the kind of mess that lives in their poverty-stricken world. And they come to us and we say, you're not a failure. God loves you and someone cares enough about you.
Philip:I'm sure that she's had many dresses bought for her by Orphan's Hands. My wife Chrissy makes these great big Rubbermaid tubs as welcome boxes for them. I need you to help me. Can you give a dollar a day? Could you please help us rescue girls like Veronica? The address is really simple: P.O. Box 25, Clinton, Tennessee, 37716. You can go to Daily Faith TV and there's a giving page there. Just say, I want to support Vatra Village. V-A-T-R-A. Vatra means hearth, like a fireplace, a hearth — great name. And you can also dial 833-Daily-Faith and someone will take your phone call right now.
Philip:Why don't we do something while these new kids are coming to us? Can you imagine me going down the line and saying to the seventh girl or the eighth girl, listen, I'm sorry, we don't have any more money. You're gonna have to leave. I've done that once already. The largest orphanage in the country — we put all new windows in, and 18 girls sat on a park bench and the director says they almost have to go. And I says, where are they going? And he shrugged his shoulders. And we had one house finished in those days and we had a computer room painted blue. I can still see it in my mind. And I looked at Chrissy and I says, Chrissy, how many kids can we take? How many of these girls can we take?
Philip:And Chrissy's face turned and she says, oh, Philip, we can take three more if we don't have computers in the computer room. And that day we chose three girls and let 15 go away. And I never want to do that again. You have the power of life and death in your hand. You can go to that number right now and help us and make a miracle take place.
Philip:I'm so excited to have with me today a dear friend, Eric Camp. His church helps us and supports our ministry. He's pastor of Collective Church in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Eric, I'm so glad you're with us today. Thank you for being with us.
Eric Camp:God bless. I'm sorry I'm a minute late, but I got kind of carried away with this burden that I have. I'm so honored to be here, Philip. It's always a blessing and an honor. And just listening to you and even at the very beginning of the broadcast and watching her testimony, you could just go on for all I care, take all of my time, because man, it's ministering to me and really helping reaffirm and confirm a lot of what we are really feeling these days. And that is that the church is broken in America. I mean, it is. We've kind of made church something really different than what is scripturally declared for the church to be.
American Church Broken: Eric Camp's Assessment
Philip:And so true. You know, what you don't realize is I'm sitting here talking to different guests, so a pattern develops over weeks and months. And what you've just said just now, I've heard in my earpiece over and over and over again — the church is broken. There's something wrong. We're missing the mark. And you are just confirming again to us that we need a revival in the church.
Eric Camp:We do, Philip. And this Americanized Christianity, or cultural Christianity, whatever we wanna call it, is not biblical Christianity. And I think that's one reason why — I know I could speak on behalf of our church — we love our church and our city here in South Mississippi and Pascagoula. But you're seeing just such an apathy, a lethargic feeling with people of faith. And we don't go deep. Our faith doesn't get any further than really saying a prayer on a Sunday once a year. And unfortunately, that's not salvation.
Philip:Actually, it's not them saying a prayer. It's you saying a prayer for them. They don't wanna get that involved.
Cultural Christianity vs. Biblical Faith
Eric Camp:That's true. There's no such thing as salvation without repentance. But we have this whole marketed Christianity today where you just say a prayer and give you 10 steps on how to feel better about yourself. And the reality is that we're called to follow Christ. We're called to follow him, not quote a doctrine and not just attend a church service, but to be the hands and feet of Jesus. And he made it so clear when they sent the elect of the Pharisees to him to kind of stump him. He said, let me just summarize everything. Love the Lord your God with everything you are and love others as yourself. And I have to ask how we're doing with that. I ask our church, how are we doing? And so we're just in a season — I know at our church, and I hear a lot of other pastors talking, Philip — we're just getting back to discipleship.
Jesus's Command to Love God and Neighbor
Eric Camp:Jesus said, go make disciples. He didn't say, go build huge buildings and have thousands of people. Those are good things if there are disciples being made. And so really we're focusing at Collective just on discipleship and what that looks like. I mean, I still think we're trying to figure that out as far as the effectiveness goes. But Follow is a series we're starting in a couple of weeks, and it's just all about following Jesus. And what does that look like? And I know for my own life, I fall short of the biblical Christianity that I'm called to operate in and to walk in as a man of faith. But then as a pastor for sure, there are days I feel like, man, I'm not worthy to be in this chair. There's just so much that's happening. We need the Spirit of God to move again. We're just broken in America and we need him more.
Discipleship Over Church Attendance
Philip:And look at our politics. We're so divided. The thing that I'm most thankful for of all my spiritual life — the thing that I'm most thankful for — was that I came to America with my dad on the 12th of March, 1969. I was 13, a month away from being 14. And I played the accordion and he preached. I never finished high school. I never got to Bible school, but I built a Bible school. But what I did do, I sat in a Winnebago motor home with Simon Peter Cameron in the passenger seat.
Philip:The day I turned 16, I got my driving license and my dad never drove again. I did all the driving. I ordered all the records. I spoke to all the pastors. And I didn't realize it, but he was allowing me to do this. He was discipling me. I was discipled in every biblical prophecy, all the scriptures — hours upon hours upon hours of this incredible man of God sitting next to me. And I look back now, in the long years past — 55 years I've been preaching and traveling in this country in ministry.
Philip:And I can honestly tell you the things that I learned in that old Winnebago motor home — when I didn't want to be there, and I hated doing what I was doing, and I'd sang over the Holy Ghost and set dancing one too many times, and I was sick of it all — and he would say to me, get ready for church. Get ready for church. One time I was in Des Moines, Iowa, and I got sunburned. And he came in and I was literally — my skin was peeling off my back. And he said to me, self-inflicted wounds, no sympathy. Get ready for church.
Philip Cameron's Winnebago Discipleship Story
Philip:And he made me go to church. I couldn't put on shoes. I just wore socks in a tent meeting with no air conditioning. And he made me sing that night. And when I took my shirt off, my whole back skin just came off with my shirt. And he said to me, you better understand that your calling is more important than a swimming pool and lying in the sun and goofing off. I hated it then. I look back on it now and I think that's what made me. And we're not willing in today's church to allow that discipline — and discipleship means discipline. We're not prepared to allow it to happen.
Eric Camp:Well, it's just such a convenience culture today. We've got Bible on demand, we've got sermons on demand, and mega ministries that we follow and idolize with the celebrity culture. And I'm not knocking that because there's a lot of those that are doing great things. But I think we're just so starstruck with this whole Christian stardom that we're really missing the basic nuts and bolts of Christianity — following Jesus. And I don't know, I think church is gonna look a lot different in years to come if Jesus tarries. And I don't know how much longer he's going to tarry, Philip. Everything that we see today, it's like, man, the signs are there. The prophecies are fulfilled. It's time.
Philip:Of course, today would be great with me. Every day I'm listening to the news right now — at any moment Iran's gonna attack Israel. Any moment. I mean, we are literally on a knife's edge as we speak. While we're recording this program, we might go outside the studio and the whole thing go up. And what's gonna happen is Russia's gonna come to aid, and China's gonna come and aid Iran, and all the congregation that they've talked about and prophesied over the centuries — it's about to happen. And with all of that, the church is still lethargic.
Celebrity Culture and Christian Stardom
Eric Camp:Absolutely. Yeah. I read a stat to our church a couple weeks ago about Christianity in America, and how now in the United States of America there's less than 50% that identify as followers of Christ. That's sad. I mean, this whole nation's foundation was birthed on Judeo-Christian values, and now we are not even the majority. And that says something. That's the result really of years and years of just doing church and not being church.
Philip:Absolutely. And not making disciples, as we talked about. What does that look like?
Eric Camp:Well, the scriptures are still real. The scriptures are still there. They're still powerful. Jesus is still the way. And instead of pointing people to our churches, let's point them to Jesus. And he's still that answer that we all need. And I just feel like there's a rumbling, there's a shaking. There are little pockets of things that we know are happening on some of our college campuses. I'm so excited about that, especially when I see it on Auburn University — War Eagle. When I see it on some of these college campuses, it really encourages me a lot. And this younger generation — my son's 21, almost 22 years old, he's a football coach — when you see it in his generation, they're so cause-driven. If it's real, if it's tangible, they're in it. But if you give them fake faith, they're gonna recognize that and they're not interested in it.
College Campus Revivals and Signs of Hope
Eric Camp:So I think a lot of what's happening is two things. I think the Holy Spirit is exposing a lot in the church to purify the church. I think he's allowing the spots and the wrinkles to be bleached and ironed out. And then also I believe the enemy on the other side is doing the same thing, obviously with a different motive — just to try to demoralize the church and try to bring sin more into the ruling and reigning in the church. And it's just such heavy spiritual warfare today. And you and I were talking earlier — I don't know that in my 20-plus years of occupational ministry I've ever known spiritual warfare to be as heavy as it is now.
Eric Camp:Now, for us in America, that's still very light considering around the world, especially what you're saying these ladies are dealing with. The pressure's on. And I really believe that's also an indication of the time and the season that we're in. And so it's time for revival. It's time for us to say, hey — let's not chase anything. Let's be the children of God. Let's chase him. Let's fall on our faces again and let's just get right with Christ.
Philip:I think part of the problem as well, Eric, is that there's an arrogance. Remember in the banking crisis under George W. Bush, there was the term too big to fail. The banks were too big to fail. And I think that America thinks and has developed the attitude that we're too big to fail. The church is too big to fail. I come from Great Britain. It used to be called Great Britain. Now it's just called Britain. And when I was a kid in school, all the maps in our classes — all the pink part of the British Empire was in pink. India, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. It was crazy. The boast was the sun never sets on the British Empire.
Philip:And I read a very interesting statistic the other day — that Britain as it is right now is 1% the size it was when it was a British Empire. It has shrunk 99%. Today in our country there are riots on the streets because we've allowed people to just come in anywhere. Scotland just had a Prime Minister who was let go because he was such a nutcase — he was a Pakistani Muslim and he hated white people. Scotland was once known as the land of the book, the land of the Bible. And we have allowed our country — because of apathy and because of not being hungry after God — we've allowed our country to come to this. Check the news today when you finish talking to me and you'll discover that Britain is in a crisis.
Philip:In fact, they've just passed a law — they want to arrest Elon Musk because he said that Britain is on the brink of a civil war, and they want to extradite him for free speech because it's offended some people in Great Britain. So they're not only interested in killing their own free speech, they want to come to America and kill our free speech. I mean, that's the arrogance of darkness that we are facing in the world today. Your government's too big. Government is continuing to get larger in America.
Eric Camp:Absolutely. And we're bowing to cultural normalcy. My goodness. We're allowing the culture to dictate — it's kind of like kids telling parents what to do all the time. And it's like we're missing reality. And I'm afraid there's gonna be a lot that's gonna miss out on the day that's most important. We've gotta get back to Christ. We've gotta get back to Jesus. And that's on pastors. We've gotta quit trying to preach for crowds and just preach for discipleship, and lead and equip people to be the church in these days that we live.
Philip:Well, when Napoleon conquered the then-world, he was in Egypt and he met an Egyptian general. And the Egyptian general said, Napoleon, how come you have such effect? Why are you so powerful? And a young French soldier was walking past, and Napoleon says, come here, son. And he took him to the edge of a cliff and he says, how much do you love France? And the French soldier said, with all my heart, sir. He says, march. And the boy stepped off the cliff and killed himself. And he says, you see? So the Egyptian general got an Egyptian soldier and took him to the same cliff and says, how much do you love Egypt? And the soldier said, this far. This is how far I love Egypt. I ain't gonna jump over that cliff for you. And we've lost our first love.
Philip:And thank you so much for being with us today. I want — if you are in the Gulf region down in Mississippi — I want you to get in contact with this church, because they're doing something for the Kingdom of God. It's called Collective Church in Pascagoula. And it's really simple: mycollectivechurch.com. Pastor Eric Camp. They put information on their website that you can avail yourself of and be a part of it. Thank you, Eric, for being with us. You are always a blessing. You always bring me thoughts, and I like that more than anything else. If you challenge me, you're challenging them. We love you so much, my friend.
Philip:Thank you for watching Daily Faith. If you can help us in Ukraine and in Moldova, I love it. We'll see you again. Bye-bye.
For over 25 years, the Cameron family has been changing the lives of orphans in Romania and Moldova — from providing running water, flushing toilets and clean wells, to coal for heat, new windows, as well as food and clothing. They champion the physical needs of the orphans in these broken and desolate countries. Many of Moldova's orphans are saved from the horrors of trafficking through homes founded by the Camerons. And in the process, orphans become daughters and sons. They come to know their heavenly Father and are forever changed by the love of Jesus. God helped the Camerons lift these amazing young men and women out of darkness — now no longer orphans. They want to return and invade that very same darkness with the light of Jesus Christ.
Orphan's Hands equips these daughters and sons to become missionaries. Your monthly gift of $31 will allow us to rescue and take in more girls and boys, saving them from the hell of human trafficking. Your monthly partnership will allow us to care for those in the Orphan's Hands homes in Moldova and Ukraine. If you want to join Philip and Chrissy in taking care of these precious young people, please contact us today by calling 833-Daily-Faith. You can also give by going online to www.dailyfaith.tv, or by writing to Post Office Box 25, Clinton, Tennessee 37716. So many lives depend on what we do. Thank you for loving the lost.
Common questions
What does Pastor Eric Camp mean when he says the church in America is broken?
Camp says that what he calls 'Americanized' or 'cultural' Christianity has drifted far from biblical Christianity. He argues that faith has been reduced to saying a prayer once a year on a Sunday, and that without genuine repentance there is no real salvation — just a marketed, self-help version of the gospel.
What is Pastor Eric Camp's church focusing on right now, and why?
Camp says Collective Church in Pascagoula, Mississippi is zeroing back in on discipleship — following Jesus in a practical, tangible way. He's launching a series called 'Follow' and believes the church has spent too long chasing big buildings and crowds instead of actually making disciples, which is what Jesus commanded.
Why does Pastor Camp think younger generations are leaving or rejecting the church?
Camp says today's younger generation is cause-driven — if faith is real and tangible, they're all in, but they can spot fake faith immediately and want nothing to do with it. He sees that as both a warning to the church and a reason for hope, pointing to genuine spiritual stirrings he's witnessed on college campuses.
How does Pastor Camp describe the spiritual warfare facing the church today?
Camp says that in his 20-plus years of ministry he has never felt spiritual warfare as heavy as it is right now. He believes the Holy Spirit is exposing and purifying the church from within, while at the same time the enemy is working to demoralize it and let sin take a greater hold — and he sees both as signs of the times.
What does Pastor Camp say is the root cause of Christianity declining to less than 50% in America?
Camp says the decline is the long-term result of 'doing church' instead of 'being church' — years of pointing people to church buildings and programs rather than to Jesus himself. He believes the church has bowed to cultural pressure and stopped preaching for discipleship, and that pastors in particular need to own that failure and return to equipping people to genuinely follow Christ.
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