'We find it quite easy to separate "conversion" from "vocation". The first refers to one's own experience: an inner turning or process of being turned, a deep change at the core of one;s being. The second refers to one's work, what one does in public, the direction of one's outward activity. In the modern Western world it is not difficult to imagine someone being "converted", as an inner religious experience, without a major change taking place in their "vocation". A non-Christian bank manager who becomes a Christian may behave differently, but will not necessarily abandon his or her original calling.
For Paul, conversion and vocation were so closely identified that it would be hard even for a razor-sharp mind like his to get a blade in between them...'
"Herold of the King" in What Saint Paul really Said, N.T. Wright, p. 39
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