His oldest brother, James, also a Presbyterian minister, would go on to found the Christian organization Young Life in 1941.
[4] Rayburn served as president of Highland College in Pasadena, California from 1952 to 1956.
[3] Rayburn wrote O Come Let Us Worship in 1980, in which he "sought to reintroduce evangelicalism to its history and liturgy.
"[6] According to Bryan Chapell, Rayburn "became the vanguard" of "modern integrative liturgies", anticipating the work of Robert E. Webber, Thomas C. Oden, and Hughes Oliphant Old.
[6] The chapel on the campus of Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis is named in honor of its founding president.