Remember the worship wars? Back when Christian music stopped being a ministry and became big business? Back when worship music was being played on the radio? The struggle was between the traditionalists who loved God, and the CCM world who loved the worldly business of making music.
It was no surprise that once ministry music crossed over in the secular music business that the message would be diluted and the ministry would be replaced with making money. Using secular recording studios and using worldly musicians and following a worldly program for promoting their music to CHINO radio stations and religious book stores guaranteed that music and ministry would be replaced by profits and promotion.
Pastor Mitchell did not allow his musicians to follow the dream of success as a musician. He insisted that it was discipleship and evangelism and preaching that was God's plan for a local church. He allowed bands to do outreaches, but he did not allow bands to make records. Pastor Mitchell was dogmatic in making sure that bands were Christian not only in name but in lifestyle and in character.
"And the world passes away, and the lust thereof, but he that does the will of God abides forever." 1John 2:17
While CCM went after the lust of the world, we went after winning souls for Jesus Christ.