Building a Gospel-Driven Community: Pastor Eric Camp on Church, Culture, and Calling
About this episode
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.
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Quotes worth sharing
“Those sins and those weights that easily beset us, the stuff, the junk, the misery that the devil wants to put in your life — it's barnacles. And what you need is to get up on the slipway and let the Lord come and wash you clean with a good old-fashioned Holy Ghost cleaning and let the barnacles fall off. And I promise you, nothing will seem the same after that.”
“If you were put on trial for being a follower of Jesus, will there be enough evidence to convict you?”
“We see a conformity to cultural normalcy. We see a little Jesus on the side when we need a 911 prayer, instead of a life on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, instead of just a Sunday one-hour visitation. It's full custody. It's not weekend visitation. And that's what we've gotta get back to understanding — that it's a life.”
What's Discussed
Pastor Eric Camp of Collective Church in Pascagoula, Mississippi discusses the church's need for a divine reset — away from shallow, cultural Christianity and toward genuine, Gospel-rooted discipleship. He recounts how Hurricane Katrina's insurance payout became the seed money to plant Collective Church, illustrating God's provision through crisis. Eric cites 1 John to argue that authentic faith must mirror how Jesus lived, warns against leading people to salvation prayers without repentance, and explains why his church uses 'Christ follower' over 'Christian.' He and Philip also address spiritual deception, the implosion of compromised ministries, and signs of authentic revival among Gen Z and in nations like Iran.
- Hurricane Katrina and Church Planting Providence
- God's Power Revealed Through Crisis
- The Church's Need for a Divine Reset
- Repentance, Salvation, and True Discipleship
- Christ Follower vs. Cultural Christian Identity
- Spiritual Deception and Compromised Convictions
- Exposing Hidden Sin and Preparing the Bride
- Gen Z Hunger for Authentic Faith
Episode Transcript
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Intro
Philip:Hey, welcome to Daily Faith Today. My name is Philip Cameron, and I am delighted you are with us. We have got a great guest, a great man of God from my church on the Gulf, and we are just looking forward to what Eric Camp has got to say today. And I believe that you may be looking for a word from the Lord.
Philip:And the great thing is, the Bible says that we exist, we move and have our being by the words that proceed from his mouth. We are maintained by the word of the Lord, and his word is beyond anything else. Whatever you see, however you feel, whatever circumstance you think you are in right now, God stands above it.
Philip:Every time I've lived in my life, and we've lived a long time, this is my 56th year of ministry in America, and I have gone through some terrible dark nights and all kinds of worries and fears. And the devil comes along — the Bible says that what Job feared came upon him. Fear is what the devil uses for faith. And when you fear something, then the devil comes along and he begins to accuse you and begin to work against you.
Philip:Well, I'm here to tell you something. God is on your side. And if God be for you, who can be against you? Great is He that is in you than he that's in the world. And when you understand that, when you see that in reality and through experience, remember when David fought Goliath, he said to Saul, the same God that delivered me out of the paw of the bear and the paw of the lion will deliver me from this uncircumcised Philistine. He looked back and said, God does not fail me. And he was able to use what he saw in the past to look beyond his circumstance, to say, my God is more than enough.
Philip:One of the great choruses that sings in my mind almost every day, I sing this to myself, and one of the lines is, He works in ways I cannot see, He will make a way for me. God will make a way in your circumstance. And I'm just so excited to be with you today. God is blessing us.
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Philip:And we are just seeing amazing things happen. God is speaking to people through Daily Faith, and we want to be a part and a partner with you to help you and affirm your walk with the Lord Jesus, that he's with you. Night and day — was that old song? He's with me night and day as I walk the narrow way. Well, you know the one, you've had it before, haven't you? The rest of the words just don't come to my mind.
Philip:But we're also on YouTube, and it's really simple — youtube.com/dailyfaith. I do reels every day. I sit down here after the program and share some thoughts that the Lord has been giving me. And we are amazed. Some of these have gone up almost a million views, just a thought from the Lord. And I'd love you to have those in your life. And you can do that by clicking on YouTube and subscribing to it. It doesn't cost you anything, but you'll get a wee word from the Lord from the Scotsman every day to let you know that God is on your side.
Philip:Listen, we got a great show. We got great news to tell you. My two granddaughters, a 16-year-old and a 13-year-old, start the next week with camps. They've done one week already in Moldova. My two granddaughters are missionaries in Moldova right now, spending their summer with orphan kids, living with the kids in our homes in Vatra Village, and today starting the second week of camps, a different village, a different team from the kids in Vatra. And so we are just so excited that God is using my grandchildren to work in the mission field. I'm a rich man. I can't believe it. I'm glad you're here with me. Delighted to have you. Welcome to Daily Faith.
Philip:Hey, my friend, welcome to Daily Faith. I am so glad you are watching today. I believe the Lord's going to use today's program to affirm you and strengthen you in your most holy faith. See, the devil doesn't want you to keep going forward. He wants to slow you down. And back in Scotland, I come from a fishing town, a wee fishing port on the northeast coast, right stuck out in the North Sea, where about a hundred miles across the North Sea to Norway — howling, windy, coldest place.
Philip:Now, right now they're having a heat wave, and my mom, who's 96, is telling me that this is the hottest she's ever experienced in Scotland right this minute. So in a country that's normally freezing cold, to have a heat wave — thank God for global warming — she's a happy camper. But when I was a boy, I actually could spend a lot of my time down the harbor. I spent my days fishing off boats in the harbor and watching them all, just the life of the fishing port and boats.
Philip:We had a slipway and we would pull boats up the slipway, and the whole bottom of the ship would be covered in barnacles. And those barnacles would weigh so much on the boat that it would start to sit low in the water. So if they had a bumper harvest of fish, then the boat couldn't carry the weight and the blessing of the fish because of the barnacles. And what they would do is they'd haul that boat up and they'd pressure steam — hot, boiling hot water — and they would walk down the quay of that boat, and that literally would cook the barnacles on the boat, and the boat would become clean, like brand new again.
Philip:And then they would paint it with antifouling paint and all the barnacles were gone. And the boat would sit in the water properly and didn't have to use so much fuel to get where it's going. And you know what? Those sins and those weights that easily beset us, the stuff, the junk, the misery that the devil wants to put in your life — it's barnacles. And what you need is to get up on the slipway and let the Lord come and wash you clean with a good old-fashioned Holy Ghost cleaning and let the barnacles fall off. And I promise you, nothing will seem the same after that.
Philip:And that is a true thing. We have a mission work in Moldova. As I told you, my two granddaughters are there right now holding camps. I can't believe that my grandkids are in the mission field right now. I'm sitting here in Tennessee talking to you and my grandkids are sharing the gospel with kids that have never heard. It's amazing. We have an incredible village called Vatra Village, a place where young folk come out of the orphanage and out of impoverished, high-risk-for-trafficking situations.
Philip:Every girl you're about to see in this video that they're playing right now, as I'm talking to you — if she's caught by the trafficker, she will earn the trafficker $300,000 a year. $300,000. All of those girls, $300,000. And we've built this incredible village called Vatra. And they come to us and we put them back in school. We tell them, if you're born, God has a plan, and some are now doctors and lawyers and all kinds of stuff. It's amazing what God is allowing us to do.
Philip:Recently a girl was brought into our place and she was too young to be in our homes, but she'd come from such a horrible family and a horrible situation, and we had to put her back, and she was gang raped. And we have just been heartbroken over that. And so we looked for a place for younger kids, and my son Andrew took my two granddaughters to Moldova and he found our village called Promise House in a brand new place. And he made this video and sent it to me. Watch this.
Andrew:Hey, this is Andrew from the Orphan's Hands. Right now I am standing in our newest project that we're believing God for — Promise House. And Promise House will help kids ages four to 16. And our hope is that we can save all kids that don't have a place to go, a place of safety. And also when they come here, they'll learn about the love of Jesus through family. Our kids from Vatra will be able to come on weekends and pour into them and hang out with them and basically become big brothers and big sisters to these younger kids as well.
Andrew:We walked around the property and looked at the area that we're gonna make a camp. And so our kids from Vatra will host summer camps and impact kids all throughout this region. We learned recently, Nadia just had a meeting with Child Protection Services and there's over 70 villages tied to this city that need help. They don't have a great assistance program for young children. And so Promise House will become a key part and an impact point to help kids.
Andrew:So we ask you to pray for us. It's a big challenge, something that we've prayed about. God led us to this property. There's two homes that are gonna help over 50 kids. We're asking you to pray for what we're doing here in Ungheni. And hopefully, you know, one day you'll be able to stand here and see the kids and the lives that your giving has impacted. So we thank you very much for what you're doing on a continual basis and supporting this ministry. God bless you.
Philip:It's an amazing thing to watch your family on the other side of the world involved in missions. I absolutely love it. That young lady standing next to Andrew is Nadia. I found her at 16 in an orphanage. She has only a thumb on her right hand. And she had a terrible life in the orphanage — abuse, mocked. And one day I didn't speak any Romanian and she didn't speak any English, but the Lord allowed me to speak with her and convince her that God could use her for his glory. And I watched the lights come on in her eyes, and she now is the lead person in Moldova.
Philip:And to watch my son and my granddaughters laying hands on one of the new buildings at Vatra — it's called Promise House. And we just had a miracle today, this morning. We had a payment coming up and we were able to make the payment. We were so thankful, and we can start now to proceed to finish one house. The first house at Promise House is finished. The other house is unfinished. And so we are believing God to have both houses finished. We still have one more payment to make if you could help us with that.
Philip:But here's the challenge. Now, every house that we open requires 300 people giving a dollar a day. $300 a day is what it costs to run — for salaries, for insurance purposes, for gas and heat, which is more expensive there than it is here, and transportation costs. And before we can open up one of these homes, we would find 300 people that will give a dollar a day.
Philip:If I were to take you there — that video that you've just seen, Andrew and Ally and Kara and Nadia there — if I were to take you there and I could stand you there, I can say, look, in this house we can take 25 kids. There's two houses, 50 total. In this house we can take, we can save 25 little kids between the age of four and 16 for a dollar a day.
Philip:Will you give a dollar a day to make that happen? Would you say, Philip, are you telling me I can save 25 little boys, 25 little girls from hell for a dollar a day? Yeah. If I can make 300 people watching this video think that thought, we can open this first house at Promise House. Can you help me? Can you include one of these kids in your family? When they go to Promise House, they'll be there until they're 16, and then at 16 they'll come to Vatra and we'll put them into university. And instead of being alcoholics and wasted lives, these little kids will grow into young men and women of God that can become leaders in that country in the future.
Philip:Please help us. Please pray. Giving a dollar a day won't change your world. A dollar a day will not affect your finances. A dollar a day will change their lives forever. Someone gave a dollar a day for Nadia to come to Vatra Village and she has transformed. I mean, she is the most amazing woman. When COVID happened, I was in Moldova and we'd leave — literally the night they closed the border down. They were closing the border down at 12 o'clock and we got out at 20 minutes to 12 and flew to Turkey.
Philip:And I said to Nadia, go back to Vatra, close down the place, lock the doors, don't leave, because we didn't know what COVID was all about. So I flew from Chisinau to Istanbul and I got out there on a plane, and I switched on my phone and here's a video of Nadia with bags full of groceries, walking through a village, feeding people that were stuck in their house because of COVID.
Philip:And I just told her to stay. I says, Nadia, I just told you to stay in Vatra Village. And she says, I'm just doing what I thought you would want me to do. And I says, I told you to stay. She says, dad, I've gotta help. That's the kind of heart. A wee girl that had no future, no hope, and now is a giant for the kingdom of God.
Philip:I'm asking you in the name of Jesus, if you could help me to say, Philip, let's open the first house. We're gonna finish the second house, but the first house, apart from a coat of paint and furniture, we can open it. We already have house parents chosen. And you imagine there are 73 villages in the region around with no aid for little kids. None. We are gonna be right in the middle of a crisis loving these kids.
Philip:You can help us by giving. Make a check out — if you do the old-fashioned way — to the Orphan's Hands, P.O. Box 25 in Clinton, Tennessee, 37716. Real simple. It's on your screen right now. You can also go to dailyfaith.tv. You can go in there, fill a form and we'll have your gift today. We'll count you in today as one of the 300 — Gideon's 300, if you wanna call it that — to make this possible.
Philip:You can also go to orphanshands.org. There's a whole bunch of videos. Our whole history of Orphan's Hands is on orphanshands.org. You can watch hours and hours of video of all the stuff that we've talked about over the years and the things that God has allowed us to do. And the most immediate way — the way I would do it, 'cause I'm an old-fashioned kind of guy — is 833-DAILY-FAITH. If you dial 833 and then just spell out Daily Faith on your phone, a real life person will pick up the phone and receive your gift.
Philip:You can make a miracle happen today for a wee boy or wee girl that has no hope outside of us. Please let the Lord speak to your heart. I know he is. I hope you obey. I am delighted to have Eric Camp with me. He pastors Collective Church in Pascagoula, Mississippi. I spent many, many months in Pascagoula. I had a dear friend called Howard Rush and he built buses, and we were a singing group. I bought his bus and I was always on my way. He had a sweetheart wife, Sarah. And so Collective Church is in Pascagoula, and I'm honored to have my dear friend Eric Camp. Eric, God bless you, my brother. How are you doing?
Hurricane Katrina and Church Planting Providence
Eric Camp:Doing great. So honored to be here, Philip. Thank you.
Philip:Delighted to have you. And you are right smack dab in the Gulf Coast where the hurricanes fly.
Eric Camp:You are. We're right in Katrina country, just north of Highway 90 here in Pascagoula, just a couple miles to the actual water. So yeah, we're right in the middle of it.
Philip:And tell us how it feels to go through a hurricane.
Eric Camp:Oh, never fun. Never fun. We've been through several of them. Katrina was one of our first — my first storm, honestly. We had just moved here from central Alabama, had only been here for a few months, of course, when Katrina came. And obviously a lot of good came out of that because, interestingly, before the storm came, the Lord had kind of inspired on our heart to purchase a wind insurance policy on our facilities. Wow. We had no idea what we were doing, but we did. I struggled with that voice for a while and I relented, and we purchased a wind insurance policy. And interestingly enough, that was our launch money to birth a new church. And yeah, that was interesting.
Philip:That was very interesting. But that was the funding that the Lord gave you to start the church. Amazing. And so here we are over 20 years later. I am fascinated, as I live and now getting up in years a wee bit, I'm amazed how God works in a crisis. He works in ways we cannot see. And the times in my ministry over the years, the biggest blessings we've ever had were birthed out of a crisis, and we've gone, oh my God, this is the worst thing that's ever happened. And then once we allow God's will to work itself out, we go, oh my God, this is the best thing that's ever happened. Because God can turn things for his glory. All things work together for good.
Philip:And so I know, sitting on the Gulf, you must dread hurricane season, but God has his people in the right place at the right time.
Eric Camp:We do. We obviously dread this time, especially with our insurance issues, especially in the state of Mississippi. Premiums have skyrocketed. But you know, we're trusting the Lord. And so far we haven't had really any loss since Katrina. So fortunately we've been blessed there. And we're just praying that protection continues.
Philip:Amen. Trusting in him.
Eric Camp:Amen.
Philip:Amen. As you're ministering to the congregation, we've come through COVID, we've come through all the storms, et cetera. The Lord's been showing you, and you've been talking to the church about a divine reset, how God can change things and God is able to reset things. The Bible says he makes all things new. He's continually in a renewal. God is a renewing God. Look at nature — every year you watch the leaves fall off the trees. And if you land on earth in October and you didn't know about March and April and May, you would think the end of the world had come. Oh, everything's dying, everything's fallen down, it has failed. But in autumn, there is a spring coming.
God's Power Revealed Through Crisis
Eric Camp:Right. Where we've been is in that line. But also just really looking at culture and looking at church and culture. And really just been a little disturbed, Philip, in looking at kind of where we're seeing a lack of spiritual maturity even in the body of Christ. We're seeing a lot of deception. Deception has been one of the words that we have thrown around, and how we, in the middle of the deception, as a body of Christ, we need more discernment. Because it's easy to get off course from the biblical truths that Jesus taught us. And just getting back to his word — not what we heard mama say 40, 50 years ago, but what does Jesus say? And just getting back to the context of scripture, not just taking one passage out of context, but what is the whole context, the whole concept.
The Church's Need for a Divine Reset
Eric Camp:And so seeing a lack of becoming disciples — we're even seeing pastors and preachers leading people to say a prayer without repentance. Well, that's not salvation. We're not saved just by saying a prayer. We're saved by repenting, turning and going in a different direction, following Jesus. Jesus said, follow me. And one of the scriptures I used even yesterday was 1 John — whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus lived. And that's really what we've been diving into this year, is looking at how did Jesus live, what did Jesus teach, and trying our best to align our lives in a way that looks more like Jesus. Because that's what real discipleship is — is becoming a disciplined follower of Jesus.
Eric Camp:And we try not to even — I know this may sound a little oxymoronic — but we don't even try to use the term Christian a whole lot. We use Christ follower, because Christian is subjective. It means so many different things based on what camp you're from or what your understanding of what Christian is. And so what is a follower of Christ? Well, a follower of Christ is a follower of Jesus. What does that look like? Well, what did the word say? What did Jesus do? And so that's really kind of where we've been in our reset mode even for the last seven months. And it's continuing, because we've just been diving deep into looking at just the gospels and Christ and who he is and what he said and what his expectations are of us that choose to follow him.
Philip:A lot of times we have a cultural Christianity. I was looking at some statistics the other day about how many countries are Christian in the world. And it was fascinating to see these percentages, and you know, the country isn't as Christian as that statistic. It may have been my granddad or my grandmother or my great-grandmother. I'm a Christian. I've never been in church in my life. I live like the devil, but I'm a Christian. But what you are talking about is, if you follow him, you pick up your cross. It's dying daily.
Eric Camp:And frankly, we don't see much dying daily in the church today. No. We see a conformity to cultural normalcy. We see a little Jesus on the side when we need a 911 prayer, instead of a life on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, instead of just a Sunday one-hour visitation. Yeah. It's full custody. It's not weekend visitation. And that's what we've gotta get back to understanding — that it's a life.
Eric Camp:And you know, I'm reminded too of Paul Harvey. I think it's in 1969. He said, if I were the devil, if I were the devil, what would I do? Well, he ultimately goes through some things about what he would do, and he would just get to the point to where he would just convince them that he wasn't real. And statistics are actually showing now that 50-something percent of churchgoing Christians today in America believe that the devil was not even a real being. And how did we get there? That is so tied to cultural American Christianity, because the American Christianity that we see by and large — not all, but by and large — is not the Christianity of the word of God.
Eric Camp:And we just need to get back to the basics. We need to get back to the word and follow Jesus, not follow what the next wave of emotion is. Who is Jesus? And what are we doing to be more like him daily in our walk?
Philip:I was talking to someone the other day with the Lord, and they were skeptical and agnostic. And I said, let me tell you why I know that Jesus is real. Here's the real proof — every one of his disciples died for him. If I had been Stephen, or if I had been Andrew or Peter or any of them, when it came down to when the rubber hit the road, I'd have said, I was just kidding.
Repentance, Salvation, and True Discipleship
Philip:But these men were willing to endure hellacious deaths. Peter said, I'm not worthy to be crucified like him, turn me upside down. Andrew on an X-shaped cross, which is the cross on the national flag of our country, Scotland. And these men were stoned and boiled in oil and skinned alive and tortured beyond anything, but they could not deny the truth of who Jesus was.
Christ Follower vs. Cultural Christian Identity
Philip:And I often think that if the church we live in today were to be put to that test, how many of us would say, hold on a second, let's talk about this. And that's the difference between serving him and having an affiliation with him.
Eric Camp:I used an old Ray Comfort question the other day in a message. I actually asked the church, if you were put on trial for being a follower of Jesus, will there be enough evidence to convict you? Wow. And the truth is, if you start looking at our lives, do our lives look different than those that have no idea or have not chosen to follow Christ? And in reality, I think we've tried through the years — even pastors and preachers — we've tried because we wanted to be relatable to a culture we're trying to reach. But that doesn't mean that we compromise the values of who we are as a Christ follower.
Spiritual Deception and Compromised Convictions
Eric Camp:But what we're seeing is a bleeding of that line and compromising the values, compromising our convictions. And that's why we see so much stuff in the body of Christ. And you're seeing an implosion right now of things being exposed, with all of the stuff that you and I see. We see it every single day. There's things that just make you weep and scratch your head. It's like, how is this stuff happening? Well, a lot of it's being exposed. And I believe, as scripture says, that things that are done in private will be exposed in public. And so I believe there's a washing, there's a cleansing. There's things that the Lord's allowing to be exposed because he is preparing his bride for his return. That day is coming closer and closer and closer with each passing moment.
Exposing Hidden Sin and Preparing the Bride
Philip:Jesus said, I will build my church. Absolutely. And the gates of hell — the counsel of hell, it means as in a court, the councils of hell — will not prevail against it. And in a day of apathy and in a day of compromise that we seem to be living in at the moment, I believe — I was watching a thing the other day and they said there's a tremendous upsurge in young men seeking God. And you would never have thought — I mean, you'd think they were the last of all of the culture of our world. But yet God knows. I was talking to someone the other day that in Iran there is a mighty revival sweeping Iran in house groups.
Philip:And we tend to think Great Britain used to be — I mean, we were the standard, the gold standard for the church, for doctrinal purity. Scotland was known as the land of the book. And today we have gone from that standard. The Wesley brothers, Spurgeon — we can go on forever. And today less than 1% is born again. And our country at this moment is being overrun by radical Islam, because the church has fallen asleep.
Eric Camp:Well, and you're seeing a couple things. You know, look at New York and the mayor's race. Now there's a Muslim that's possibly going to be the mayor. I mean, how in the world can that happen? You know, we're deceived. There's such a deception. And you just — it just, you know, and you started talking about the young men just a few moments ago. I think too, and I've got an almost 23-year-old son — one thing that we're noticing, just in kind of studying these moments and these movements, per se, is that younger people especially — there's the Attractional Model Church where we did all kinds of things to kind of renew the body of Christ. Thank God for that. We birthed our church in that movement.
Eric Camp:But what's happening is that if we stay there, we get shallow, we stay shallow. And now there's a digging in and trying to catch up to get discipled and go deep. But what you're seeing in this Gen Z generation, they're looking for something real. They ain't buying this. They're not buying all your smoke and all your play. They're looking for real, authentic, transparent. Give me something tangibly real I can believe in and follow. And that's really where the church is headed. So I'm not saying this is prophetic, but I'm telling you, you can turn and you can watch — I believe in months and years to come, if Jesus tarries, you're gonna see an authenticity return back to the body of Christ.
Gen Z Hunger for Authentic Faith
Eric Camp:I believe that. And I believe the falling away, just as Paul says in Timothy, they're gonna go after itching ears, whatever they can find to hear. But there's gonna be a remnant that's gonna be left that's looking for the authentic relationship with Christ. And that's gonna be the pursuit. Hallelujah.
Philip:Every time I talk to you, I'm challenged and blessed by being with you. And I appreciate you, Eric, so much. Eric pastors Collective Church, 4007 Pascagoula Street in Pascagoula. If you are anywhere in that area looking for a family church to go to, Collective Church. And their website is mycollectivechurch.com. My collective church.com. And if you're looking for a genuine church that has a real passion for winning the lost, for loving Jesus, and being his disciples in these days, I want you to find them. And when you go there, make sure you let brother Eric know you saw him on Daily Faith and you loved it. Thank you, Eric, for being with me. Blessings upon you, my friend.
Eric Camp:Thank you. I need to update my picture. I had more color in my hair when that picture was on there.
Philip:At least you got hair. Don't worry about it. Listen, I'm glad to get what I have. Thank you so much, Eric.
Eric Camp:Thank you.
Philip:Thank you for watching Daily Faith Today. We appreciate your prayers and your support, and help us with that incredible challenge we have in Ungheni. You are never more important than you are right now. 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.
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Common questions
What does Eric Camp mean by a 'divine reset' for the church?
Camp describes it as a return to the actual words and life of Jesus — studying the Gospels closely, reading scripture in full context rather than cherry-picking verses, and asking 'what did Jesus say and do?' rather than relying on inherited cultural assumptions. For his church, Collective Church, this reset has been an ongoing, seven-month-deep dive into authentic discipleship.
Why does Eric Camp prefer the term 'Christ follower' over 'Christian'?
Camp says 'Christian' has become too subjective — it means different things depending on someone's background or church tradition. 'Christ follower,' by contrast, points directly to a specific question: what did Jesus actually do and teach? He uses that framing to keep his congregation focused on concrete, scripture-grounded discipleship rather than cultural or denominational identity.
What does Eric Camp say is wrong with how some churches lead people to salvation?
Camp argues that leading someone to 'say a prayer' without repentance is not true salvation. He says real salvation involves repenting — turning around and going in a different direction — and genuinely following Jesus. He cited 1 John: 'whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus lived.'
How does Eric Camp see Gen Z's relationship with the church?
Camp believes younger people, including Gen Z, are done with smoke-and-mirrors, performance-driven church. They're looking for something real, authentic, and transparent. He sees this as a hopeful sign — a push away from shallow 'attractional model' church toward genuine, deep discipleship — and predicts that authenticity will increasingly define the body of Christ in the years ahead.
How did Hurricane Katrina actually help launch Collective Church?
Camp says that shortly before Katrina hit, he felt a strong prompting from God to purchase a wind insurance policy on the church's facilities — something he initially struggled with but ultimately obeyed. When Katrina struck, the insurance payout became the seed money that allowed them to birth and launch Collective Church as it exists today.
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