“If you haven’t figured this out yet,” he told the crowd, “All we’re doing all night long is singing church songs together.”
Jeremy Camp opened the evening with a set including “These Days,” “No Survivors,” and “Getting Started.” Prior to playing “Dead Man Walking,” he said, “I love the Scripture [that] says that we were once dead in our trespasses, but we’ve been made alive in Christ. I once was a dead man walking until Jesus Christ breathed new life into me. And that’s why I’m here tonight.”
The Colorado Springs concert took place on a Sunday evening, and Camp told the audience that the tour members have “tour church.” Mentioning the tragic death of his first wife, Camp said that God saved him from dark times in his life, times when he “was having panic attacks and depression.” The story of how Camp’s faith was tested through that tragedy was dramatized in the 2020 film “I Still Believe.”
“Why would I not worship the God who has pulled me out of the darkest pit I’ve ever been in my life?” he asked. Camp said that some of the people on tour were dealing with “heavy things” and that many of the people attending the concert that night probably were also.
“I know that those things will weigh you down. And when you start feeling those things, you start to hold on and grip on really tight, don’t you?” Camp said.
“And I just have to say that every time I do that, I feel so out of control. And there’s a song that we’re about to sing,” said the artist. “It says, take this out of my hands. Take this out of my hands.” He encouraged the audience members to open their hands and say, “God, take this.”
“Fill in the blanks,” said Camp. “Anxiety, depression, bitterness, shame, guilt, addiction. I believe that God can set you free and you shall be free indeed.”
Later, Camp shared the gospel with the audience. He told concertgoers that God not only loved them but also liked them and wanted to be with them.
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“Before he even formed you in your mother’s womb, he knew you,” Camp said, telling people not to believe the enemy’s lies that they are unseen and that they do not belong.
“Nothing can separate you from the love of Jesus. Nothing,” he said, quoting Hebrews 12:2, which says that Jesus endured the cross because of the joy set before him.
“We were the joy,” said Camp, explaining that Jesus suffered “because there was a brokenness because of our sin. But Jesus Christ came down, and he paid the price for what we deserve.
“And he died, and he rose again on the third day,” Camp said. “That’s the greatest act of love ever right there. That’s the good news.”
He then led the crowd in doing something that Camp said he does every night on tour, something that he prays “never becomes a ‘thing’…but [instead] truly is something that we say, ‘God, I want your presence to be felt and known and moved.’”
Camp then had concertgoers hold up their phones with the lights on as they sang “he loves you” over one another. That way, said Camp, “brothers and sisters that need to hear that will be encouraged.”
