Eric Bryant

Job Title

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Missional Ministry, Intercultural Communication, Missional Innovation, Missional Contextualization, Personal Well-Being and Ministry Effectiveness, Leading a Missional Organization

Started at Bethel

2013

Education

  • Bethel Seminary - D.Min., 2010

Biography

Dr. Eric Michael Bryant serves with Gateway Church in Austin as the team leader for the South Austin campus and as part of the teaching team. Known for their mottos: "no perfect people allowed" and "come as you are, but don't stay that way."

From 1998-2010, Eric served as part of the leadership team 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 teaches a masters level Post-Christian Ministry Certificate and leads a cohort for a Doctorate of Ministry in Missional Effectiveness through Bethel Seminary where he earned his Doctorate of Ministry in Entrepreneurial Leadership. Trained in Gallup's StrengthsFinder, the Myers Briggs Temperament Indicator, and the Birkman Method, Eric has coached leaders in the ministry, non-profit, and business sectors.

Eric lives with his wife, Deborah, his son Caleb and his daughter Trevi near downtown in Austin, TX.

Courses Taught

Missional Ministry, Intercultural Communication, Missional Innovation, Missional Contextualization, Personal Well-Being and Ministry Effectiveness, Leading a Missional Organization

Publications

Eric's book, Not Like Me: A Field Guide for Influencing a Diverse World, helps Christ-followers overcome the negative Christian stereotype by embracing the people Christians "love to hate." His newest project is A Fruitful Life: Becoming Who You Were Created to Be.

He is also one of the co-authors of The Uprising Experience, a workbook developed based on Erwin McManus' book Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul.

Certificates and Licenses

Gallup Strengths Finder Coach
MBTI certified coach

Teaching specialty

Missional Ministry, Intercultural Communication, Missional Innovation, Missional Contextualization

Quote

Stereotypes exist when friendships do not.

Website

http://www.ericbryant.org/