Does God Really Need Our Help?

Tuesday morning, August 26, 2008 [cloudy, stormy, and 77 degrees],
This is another quote from McArthur's commentary on James (p. 59-60): ". . . God's sovereign and uninfluenced will is the source and basis of the new life. Not only theologically but logically, that is the only way life could be given to those who are dead. The dead have no awareness or understanding of sin, no desire to turn from it [John 3:19-20], and no power or resources to change if they wanted to. They do not, of course, even know that they are dead. Regeneration could only happen by the sovereign will and power of God, the source and Giver of spiritual life . . . No child has ever been born into the world by its own will or plan. Its conception, gestation, and birth are completely out of its consciousness and control. It is merely the passive recipient of the will and action of it parents. Just as certainly, no person wills, much less creates, a new spiritual nature within himself . . . The natural man not only cannot make such a change in himself, but, apart from God's revelation, he cannot even know that he needs such a change. To the contrary, if he thinks he needs change at all, he underestimates what he really needs and presumes he can make it satisfactorily by himself. 'A natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God,' Paul explains, 'for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised' [1 Corinthians 2:14]" In the end, this is the long and short of McArthur's comment: The Spirit of God sovereignly moves in where He wills and gives new birth to those whom He has predestined to salvation.
This is the way Paul (the Apostle) said it: "He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed upon us in the Beloved" (Ephesians 1:4-6). You see, left to ourselves, we are hopelessly lost and, completely, unaware of our need for The Savior. Left to ourselves, we do not improve; instead, we continue in our depraved state, aimlessly wandering through life.
In my opinion, this should raise some serious questions about the techniques of modern-day evangelism. For example, why is such emphasis placed on the "altar call," especially in evangelical churches? Do we, somehow, think God needs our help to redeem His elect?
Just thought I would ask-