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In 2014, Brantley graduated from South Point High School and began attending Appalachian State University. In 2017, Brantley graduated with a Bachelors of Business Administration (majoring in Computer Information Systems and minoring in Supply Chain Management). While attending university, Brantley regularly attended First Baptist Church of Boone.

In 2017, following his college graduation, Brantley moved back home to begin working in his professional career. Upon returning home, he began attending back at his home church (First Baptist Church of Cramerton), and was approved by the church to serve as the volunteer IT Director of the church. In August of that year, Brantley married his first spouse in Fort Mill, SC at Anne Springs Close Greenway. In October of that year, Brantley attended a worship service at Parkwood Baptist Church on the Sunday of the 500th Anniversary of the [[Protestant Reformation]]; which was the first Sunday the pastor/preacher was back (after returning from Sabbatical), and started a sermon series in the book of Galatians. Following that Sunday, Brantley began a theological shift towards [[Reformed theology]] and began attending both Parkwood Baptist Church and First Baptist Church of Cramerton.

In early 2020, Brantley resigned from being the volunteer IT Director (and ceased being a contracted Student Ministry worker) at First Baptist Church of Cramerton; and from that point onward began attending only at Parkwood Baptist Church (eventually moving membership to there also). Later that same year, Brantley's first child and daughter was born in November. In 2021, Brantley and his first spouse entered into a Separation Agreement and legally divorced the following year.

In 2021, Brantley began attending at Exodus Church ([[Acts 29 Network]]), which was an outgrowth from Parkwood Baptist Church.

In 2019, Brantley connected online with [[Walter Ortiz]], an American Reformed Baptist residing in the Southern California region who operated the 1689.com website since 1998. Brantley began helping Walter build a newer version of the website, and expand to include email account offerings and also a social media presence (which would become to be known as [[1689 Reformed Baptist]]).

In 2023, following Brantley becoming an administrator for the [[Facebook]] group [[Reformed Baptist Alliance]] (RBA), Brantley brought the group under the affiliation of a new page by the same name. Shortly after creating the RBA's new public-facing page, the RBA was then brought under the [[1689 Reformed Baptist]]'s umbrella of projects by Brantley in July of 2023. Brantley also launched a [[Facebook groups|Facebook group]] for [[Reformed Baptist|Reformed Baptists]] that have or are planted new churches under the [[1689 Reformed Baptist]] ministry called "[[Reformed Baptist Church Planters]]".

 

 

Brantley is the founder of an informal online network ([https://reformedleague.org ReformedLeague.org]) of profiles and pages that is called "[[The Reformed League]]". This networking group exists to connect the notable persons, content creators, influencers, administrators of websites and social medias, etc. that are in the Reformed Christian field.

As the domain registrant of the ''Paedobaptism.org'' and ''InfantBaptism.org'' domains, Brantley followed a suggestion from a moderator in the 1689.com's Reformed Baptist Discord Server, to have the domains redirect visitors to the music artist Rick Astley's well-known music video ''Never Gonna Give You Up'' (which is commonly referred to as a "Rick Roll" or "Rick Rolling").

 

 

 

 

Despite any personally-held beliefs, Brantley has committed to not being publicly involved in certain theological controversies (mostly hot-topic issues that would divide those within the Reformed Baptist field), due to his work and goals to serve and unify Reformed Baptists. Such controversies include (but are not limited to) [[Christian Nationalism]] and [[Impassibility|Divine Impassibility]].