In the selection of everyone who enters the service of the King of kings there are always two sides: on the one hand there is the election of God in eternity, accompanied by His heavenly summons in the course of time to take up the cross and follow Him; on the other hand, there is the human response in commitment of life to Jesus Christ as Lord. It is not my task or yours to guess who are among God’s elect. This is a secret hidden in the heart of God from before the foundation of the world. Yet by