Every believer has a vocation, a calling to glorify God in the place he has apportioned to him or her. Each child of God should "lead the life that God has assigned to him, and to which God has called him" (1 Cor. 7:17). Our specific callings flow from our general callings (quote perkins). To put it differently there is an essential relationship between calling and conversion.
This is not to discredit the valuable work done by non-believers. God can truly work through even the most resolute atheist to bless his world. Calvin put it this way: "Hardly anyone is to be found who does not manifest talent in some art," either liberal or manual. God bestows his gifts "indiscriminately upon pious and impious." In fact, "the mind of man, though fallen and perverted from its wholeness, is nevertheless clothed and ornamented with God's excellent gifts." Unbelievers can do excellent and edifying work. Even the "natural person" (1 Cor. 2:14) can be "sharp an penetrating in their investigation of inferior things." God helps his children through the "work and ministry of the ungodly" in fields like physics, logical argumentation, mathematics, and many more. In the diversity of gifts God grants even to unbelievers we see "some remaining traces of the image of God, which distinguish the entire human race from the other creatures."
Despite all of this unbelievers are not self-consciously living out a calling. In all areas of life, including work, they do not honor the Lord as God (Rom. 1:21). An unconverted person simply cannot live vocationally, bringing the truth of God to bear on every area of their lives. If you want to live out a Christian calling you have to actually be a Christ
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