Building a Gospel-Driven Community: Pastor Eric Camp on Church, Culture, and Calling

Pastor Eric Camp of Collective Church in Pascagoula, Mississippi joins Philip Cameron for a candid conversation about the state of the modern church and what it truly means to follow Jesus. Drawing from his years of ministry on the Gulf Coast — including navigating Hurricane Katrina, which providentially became the funding catalyst for planting Collective Church — Eric brings hard-won wisdom about trusting God through crisis and allowing him to work in ways we cannot see. The heart of the conversation is a clarion call for authentic discipleship over cultural Christianity. Eric warns that "we're seeing a lack of becoming disciples" and that too many churches are leading people to say a prayer without genuine repentance. Referencing 1 John, he challenges believers to ask whether their lives actually look like Jesus lived. He and Philip discuss the dangerous rise of spiritual deception, the blurring of biblical conviction, and why Eric's congregation deliberately uses the term "Christ follower" rather than "Christian" to anchor identity in the Gospels. Despite the sobering diagnosis, both men point to genuine hope: a growing hunger among Gen Z for something real and transparent, a documented surge of young men seeking God, and revival spreading in unexpected places like Iran. Eric's message is a reset — back to the Word, back to repentance, back to full-custody discipleship. Find Collective Church at mycollectivechurch.com.