He has made six trips to the Middle East, visiting such countries of the Bible as Italy, Turkey, Greece, Jordan, Israel, and Egypt.
For fourteen years he was on the faculty of the Central Baptist Theological Seminary of Minneapolis, serving in the capacities of Professor, Registrar, and Dean.
Central Baptist Theological Seminary of Plymouth, MN conferred an honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, upon McCune in May 2019.
Dr. McCune has written numerous articles and extensive course syllabi in Systematic Theology, Presuppositional Apologetics, New Evangelicalism, History of Israel, Basic Bible Doctrine, and Dispensationalism, and a teacher's handbook on the Book of Daniel.
[4] Although Rolland D. McCune criticized individuals who would deny the doctrine of preservation of the scriptures, he did not teach King James Onlyism unlike most Independent Baptists do.
McCune argued that the Greek word monogenēs used in John 3:16 implies the idea of "begottenness," viewing it as confirmation of the doctrine of eternal generation.