Eric Michael Bryant

Eric serves with Gateway Church in Austin as part of the Executive Team where he leads the Inspire Team (Creative Arts, Production, Marketing, and Prayer) and serves as the Campus Pastor for Gateway South Austin and Gateway Online. Gateway Austin was founded by John Burke and is known for their mottos: “no perfect people allowed” and “come as you are." South Austin has been called “a church planter’s graveyard,” yet with God’s help and using the 5 Keys to Church Growth, Gateway in South Austin grew from 200 to 1000 over the course of 7 years while also sending out core groups to start campuses in Central Austin, Buda, Dripping Springs, along with a few families and campus pastor to start a campus in Pflugerville. From 1998-2010, Eric served as part of the leadership team with Erwin McManus at Mosaic in Los Angeles, a church known for its creativity and diversity. The four years prior to that he helped plant a church in Seattle, WA. Eric is the author of Not Like Me: Loving, Serving, and Influencing Our Divided World and Fruitful: Becoming Who God Created You To Be. He teaches at Bethel Seminary, coaches pastors to help them lead thriving churches with the Damascus Road Collective, and shares resources with church leaders through his website and YouTube page such as The Post-Christian Podcast and Through the Bible for Skeptics and Seekers. Eric lives with his wife, Deborah, in South Austin, TX. They are the parents of two young adult children - Caleb and Trevi.