Is This a Spiritual Deal Breaker?

No you shouldn't make him go, because he was safe at 2nd.

If he was out, then you should force him to go.

Okay, so the answer is long, but it's not mine. I love this website; it talks about God loving us unconditionally. People get the impression that God is out to get us. You can read the full item (it's about 7 paragraphs) at the site below.

Myth #7 God makes bad things happen to teach us lessons.

Many people think God causes bad things to happen so that He can accomplish good things. This myth creates alot of fear. It is based on misunderstandings of God's character...

...The Bible says that every GOOD gift comes from God and that God does not test us.

Preachers who accuse God of throwing 747s at tall buildings when He gets mad, do not understand God in the slightest.... in fact, they cannot tell the difference between God and Satan.

The Bible says that through Jesus and His work on the Cross, God already sees us as perfected members of His Kingdom. In Christ, we are a finished work, not a starter kit. Jesus took all of our disease and sickness on Himself and took it to the grave. God would have to apologize to Jesus if He doled our sickness back out again.

Some bad things happen because we caused them to happen by living unwisely. Sin hits us like stepping on a tooth-up rake and being smacked in the face. Then many people blame the bruise on God saying "God caused this to happen because I was bad and stepped on a rake". What silly logic that is. The Bible does not say, "He pays us back for our sins", or "He wounds us so we will not sin so much", it says, "He remembers our sin no more".

When we do see God's wonderful solutions to our messes, we should not then say that God caused the mess to begin with. This would change God from a hero to a manipulator. God did not kill Lazarus so Jesus could raise him!

He should go to church. That was the deal. There was no small print saying "I'll go to church unless I break my arm".

A deal is a deal.