A true Calvinist believes that nothing whatsoever a person does or is contributes anything at all to salvation. Salvation is God's work alone and we play no part in it not even receiving salvation counts. Today's evangelical church is far more Arminian in its approach to evangelism. Calvinism teaches that men and woman are totally depraved absolutely evil from birth. Every single baby coming into the world is born with an evil heart totally depraved and completely inclined to wickedness.
Total depravity teaches that men and women from birth are rotten to the core.
A man or woman can do nothing whatsoever good or pleasing to God it is impossible, for we are born absolutely and altogether sinful. Since we are born so sinfully inclined, we are therefore totally incapable of any good. Most Christians today are far more Arminian. In fact, even these worldlings sometimes do good things out of this positive impulse in them an impulse planted there by God. Most of today's Christians have a hunch that their unbelieving associates at work are really hungry for God deep inside.