Dr. Betts is a fourth generation Southern Baptist minister who has pastored fourteen years in Ohio and Indiana. He has written Ezekiel the Priest: A Custodian of Tora. He contributed a chapter to The Challenge of the Great Commission and has written for Holman Bible Dictionary, The Southern Baptist Journal of Theology, and The Tie. He has participated in an archaeological dig at Hazor. He is a frequent preacher and Bible conference speaker and member of the Evangelical Theological Society.