We are affiliated with the Baptist General Conference with which the Minnesota Baptist Conference is affiliated. It is good to link arms with the like-minded.
Church planting is made more accessible, especially to smaller churches.
Ordination processes are refined, strengthened, and held accountable by involving parties outside one s local congregation. For example, I do not see Arminianism as true or healthy. But I do not see my membership in the BGC as implying that I share the Arminianism tolerated by our breadth. So in principle our presence does not endorse the theology of Greg Boyd. But for now we are solidly right in rejecting that theology as false while thinking that the error is not significant enough to disallow as part of our identity.