Are you called?

In order to come to Christ, God's Son, you have to be called by the Father. Jehovah God foreknew those and predestinated those who would be conformed to the image of his only begotten Son. Image means "likeness, representation". It is those who have been called by the Father that love the Father. When we accept the Father's Messiah Jehoshua, we were drawn to him by the Father. The Father called us according to his purpose and no one else's including our own. In order to truly be born again you must have been called by the Father and drawn by the Father to his Son. While many in the world of Christendom have been converted superficially it's the true children of Jehovah that have actually been called. Many pulpit preachers preach the sinners prayer and altar call as a method of salvation and play heart warming music to get a response from the audience but unless the potential convert is actually called by God then it is in vain. The sinners prayer and altar call is foreign to scripture. In and of itself there is nothing wrong with them but they also lead to many false conversions. A true convert will not need an altar call or sinners prayer but only to confess that Jesus is the Son of God  (1 John 4:15) and repent and be baptized  (Acts 7:38).

Only those who have been conformed to the image (Likeness, representation) of the Son of God have truly been called by the Father.

Romans 8:28-29 (KJV)

28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.