Dr. Kenneth R. Walters, JR.

Academic Degrees & Education

• Dallas Theological Seminary

• D.Min.

• Th.M. in New Testament

• State Music Academy, Munich, Germany

• One year of further conducting study

• University of Maryland

• M.M. in Conducting

• B.M. in Theory & Composition

Academic Appointments & Experience

• Kairos University

• Faculty Member

• Worship Resources International

• Director

• First Evangelical Church

• Pastor of Worship / Missionary in Residence

• Greater Europe Mission

• Director, Department of Worship Resources

• First Evangelical Church, Memphis, Tennessee

• Pastor of Worship and Music

• International Chapel of Vienna, Austria

• Associate Pastor / Interim Pastor

• Dallas Theological Seminary

• Assistant to Chaplain Richard Seume

• Sherman Bible Church, Sherman, Texas

• Music Director / Assistant Pastor / Associate Pastor

Awards

(Please include relevant awards here if applicable)

Affiliations

• Member, Executive Committee, Global Consultation on Music in Missions

• Member, Advisory Board, Global Renewal of Worship (GROW) Center (Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies)

• Member, Evangelical Theological Society

• Member, International Council of Ethnodoxologists

Publications & Presentations

• “The Value of Chiasm for New Testament Interpretation,” Bibliotheca Sacra 141 (April-June 1984): 146-57.

• “False and True Worship in Romans 1:18-25,” Bibliotheca Sacra 157 (Jan.-March 2000): 26-34.

• “Jesus Our Worship Leader” and “Worship and the Glory of God,” Reformation and Revival 9:2 (Spring 2000): 31-43; 79-99 (also served as consulting editor for this issue).

• “Worship and the Word” and “What the Church Needs Now,” Reformation and Revival 9:3 (Summer 2000): 11-21; 133-47 (also served as consulting editor for this issue).

• “Some Things Remain the Same,” Mission Frontiers (June 2001): 26-29.

• “Worship Bridges” (cover article) and “Guiding Principles for Worship Change,” Worship Leader (September 2005): 18-21, 74 (also served as consulting editor for this issue).

• “Whose Gathering Is It Anyway?” Reformed Worship 87 (March 2008): 38-39.

• “A Letter from Tapescrew,” Reformed Worship 93 (September 2009): 39.

• “Global Worship: What in the World Can I Do about It?” Worship Leader (November/December 2009): 82.

• “Lessons from Global Worship,” Evangelical Review of Theology 36.3 (July 2012).

• “‘The Bridge’: Worship between Bible and Culture,” in Worship and Mission for the Global Church: An Ethnodoxology Handbook (William Carey Library, 2013): 17-25.

Books

• Proclamation and Praise: Hebrews 2:12 and the Christology of Worship (Wipf & Stock, 2007).

Teaching

• Kairos University

• Professor of Worship and Practical Theology

• American Society of Missiology

• Ethnodoxology and Mission: Worship and Arts for the Local Church

• Theological Education in Africa Conference

• Worship, Church, and Theological Education in Africa

• Ouachita Baptist University

• The Trinity, the Church’s Worship, and God’s Mission

• Missouri Baptist University

• Worship Heart and Art Seminar