The document discusses how many modern people seek salvation through career success and high-paying jobs in order to prove themselves and secure their identity. However, the gospel of Jesus frees people from this pressure as it proves and secures their identity, allowing all work to become a way to love God and others rather than for validation or self-worth.

1. Every Good Endeavor, p. 73, by Tim Keller
“Many modern people seek a kind of salvation...
self-esteem & self-worth...
from CAREER SUCCESS.
This leads us to seek only
high-paying, high-status jobs, and to “worship”
them in perverse ways.
&
But the GOSPEL
[the good news of Jesus]
frees us from the relentless pressure of having to
PROVE OURSELVES
SECURE OUR IDENTITY
through work, for we are already PROVEN and SECURE.
All work now becomes a way to love the God
who saved us freely; and by extension,
A way to
LOVE OUR NEIGHBOR.”
GOSPEL
IDENTITY