RDP,
You shouldn't have any problem, then, if you decide to affiliate with them. I'd recommend just using some dayparts for this reason: I don't know if/why/how the FCC will enforce it, but they are wanting LPFMs to pledge at least 8 hours per day of local programming. That pledge (and living up to your word_ is worth a point in case of mutually exclusive situations (if someone else files for the same facilities as you.)
FCC has stated they may begin monitoring stations to see if applicants are doing what they said.
May or may not be anything to this, but I am going all local with mine. There are no Christian format holes except for Southern Gospel in my area.
Josh,
May be, in some places. Like most areas, translators are all over the place. I am 27 miles, roughly, from the Georgia/Florida state line. First station across the line is black gospel station WSTT, AM-730, in Beachton. It comes into Tallahassee like a local and had some ratings a couple of years ago.
Cumulus is trying a positive country/CCM mix called the Walk on a translator in Atlanta. I believe it is an HD-2 feed from one of their other stations. I listened on iHeart Radio and really liked it, better than K-Love as far as a personal choice. It might be an interesting station to watch.
CCM seems to be pretty well covered. Southern gospel, not so much. I have listened to WTYS on 94.1 in Marianna, Fla., while traveling and enjoyed it. Can't listen to home, though, due to WAKU-Wave 94, a praise and worship/talk station that I can barely pick up, and don't care for.
I like some CCM, but less so than when I worked in the format from 1983-1988 and 1996 to 2001.