Daniel Stevens was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, relocating, with his mother, to Mississippi in his mid-teens. In 2002, Daniel graduated from Pensacola Christian College with a BA in Pastoral Studies and a minor in Biblical Languages. He received his Master of Divinity from Pensacola in 2006 and completed his Ph.D. in Biblical Studies in 2017 at Piedmont International University, and completed his dissertation in May of 2018. 

Pastor Stevens has served as a youth pastor and a school administrator. He also ministered as a senior pastor for eight years before becoming college president of Virginia Baptist College. Pastor Daniel Stevens was unanimously elected as the senior pastor at Grace Baptist Church on February 12, 2017. He also serves as the Chair of Graduate Department at West Coast Baptist College.