Pray every morning. Pray for each other. Help a neighbor.

Mercy is a free Christian app made for the quiet start of the day. Every morning there is a short prayer waiting for you, and a board where people who understand will pray for whatever you are carrying. In Neighbors, Christians look after one another with work, with their trades, and with a few hours of their time. It is a gentle place to practice what Jesus taught, and to keep learning it.

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A short prayer to begin your morning, before the day asks anything of you.

Every morning Mercy opens with one prayer, written in plain words and set beside a painting. You will find the verse it rests on, the name of the person who first said it, and a single line to pray in your own voice. Beneath it is a short daily devotional that takes about a minute to read and leaves you with one small thing to practice before the day is over. If life gets in the way and you miss a morning, nothing is lost, because the prayer simply waits for you until you come back.

Tell us what you need, and your neighbors will pray for you.

Write down whatever is on your heart, in your own words, however it comes out. People will read it, and when they pray for you they tap I prayed, so you can watch the number grow and know that you are not carrying it alone. A person reads every post before it goes up, so the board stays a kind and safe place.

Neighbors who look after each other.

Neighbors is the part of Mercy where Christians help one another in plain, practical ways. Someone offers a day of paid work, a family lists the bakery they own, and a food bank asks for a few more pairs of hands. Jesus never raised a sword against a neighbor. When a friend of his did, on the night he was arrested, Jesus told him to stop and healed the very man who had come to take him away (Luke 22:51). He blessed people and forgave them, and this is a place to do the same.

The message of Jesus, read in the Greek it was written in.

The New Testament was written in Greek, and that is the language our teachers read it in, side by side with the everyday Greek of the Roman world, the language of loan papers, receipts and debt notes. Debt ran through the whole of that world, and some of the verses we know best were written in its words, so read that way they say more than the English has room for.

Matthew 5:17 · the word for fulfill

οὐκ ἦλθον καταλῦσαι ἀλλὰ πληρῶσαι

“I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill.”

When Jesus said he had come to fulfill the law, the word he used was πληρῶσαι (plērōsai), and in the Greek of his day it was the same word loan papers used when a debt had been paid in full. Paul says it plainly: God wiped out the handwritten note of debt that stood against us and nailed it to the cross (Colossians 2:14). The debt is settled. You are free. Now, mercy.

A small papyrus loan receipt with lines of cursive Greek, a wax seal, and a bronze coin on a worn table — A loan receipt from the Roman world. The same word, paid in full.

Luke 4:16-21 · in his hometown

Σήμερον πεπλήρωται ἡ γραφὴ αὕτη

“Today this writing is fulfilled in your hearing.”

In Nazareth, the town where he grew up, Jesus stood up in the synagogue to read, and he was handed the scroll of Isaiah, the prophet who had written of the anointed one God would send. He read the words aloud: the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. Then he sat down and told everyone in the room that this writing had been fulfilled that very day, in their hearing. He was telling them who he was, because Christ means the anointed one; he is the Messiah, the Son of God. And the word he chose is the same word once more: fulfilled, brought to completion.

Mark 7 · Luke 4 · Matthew 5 · the rules he set aside

He knew the old book by heart, and set its rules aside.

Jesus grew up with the Hebrew scriptures and knew them by heart, and then, in public and on purpose, he set aside the rules in them that had never come from the Father:

Food rules. Nothing that goes into a person from outside can make them unclean, he said (Mark 7:15).
Keeping outsiders out. He made a Samaritan, an outsider, the hero of his story (Luke 10), and in Nazareth he reminded the room that God had healed a general from Damascus and fed a widow from Sidon, both of them foreigners, until they tried to throw him off a cliff (Luke 4:25-29).
Measured payback. The law said an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, hurt for hurt, measured out, and Jesus said to turn the other cheek instead (Matthew 5:38-39).
Keeping the sick away. The law said to stay away from lepers, and Jesus reached out and touched one first, and then healed him (Mark 1:41).
The Sabbath. He healed on the Sabbath in front of everyone, and called the rule-keepers hypocrites (Luke 13:10-17).

He did all of it for mercy, so that no one would ever again live in fear of a rule. The Father he showed us makes his sun rise on the bad and the good alike (Matthew 5:45), because he loves all his children the same.

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Pray every morning. Pray for each other. Help a neighbor.

A short prayer to begin your morning, before the day asks anything of you.

Tell us what you need, and your neighbors will pray for you.

When someone prays for you, you will know.

A person reads it first.

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Neighbors who look after each other.

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The message of Jesus, read in the Greek it was written in.

He knew the old book by heart, and set its rules aside.

The Bible in eight languages, the Greek it came from, and two books we will teach from next.

The Greek New Testament

Eight translations

The first printed Greek

The Gospel of Thomas

The Ethiopian Bible

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