[3] He was part of a group that included notable evangelical leaders such as Arthur Glasser, Kenneth Kantzer, Joseph Bayly, and Francis Schaeffer.
[4] His full-time teaching career began in 1945, when he became dean and professor of theology and apologetics at Baptist Bible College & Seminary in Johnson City, New York.
Grounds continued in a teaching and counseling role as president emeritus, and was named chancellor in 1993, where he actively served until his death.
[6] A festschrift honoring Grounds, titled Christian Freedom, edited by Stanley Grenz and Kenneth Wozniak, was published in 1986.
[2] Upon his death, George W. Truett Theological Seminary professor and Patheos blogger Roger E. Olson memorialized Grounds as "a model post-fundamentalist, centrist evangelical".