Love Your Neighbor:
Jesus’ Model for Our Mercy
Each January as a church, we call one another to a month of awareness, discussion, prayer, fasting and action toward significant areas of mercy and justice in our neighborhoods, region, nation and world.
One of our three core values at Liberti Church is mercy. Jesus sets us free not only to love God and each other, but to love our neighbors. Mercy is our pursuit of loving neighbors.
In the Bible, the words “mercy” and “neighbor” are incredibly weighty words. And one of the best places to see that is in a parable Jesus told in Luke 10. A traveler was left for dead, passed by, and then cared for by the one least likely to do so.
For centuries, the Parable of the Good Samaritan has become a foundational text for Jesus’ Church and its call to “go and do likewise.” In this short story, Jesus gives us a model for our mercy.
So join us this January for our annual month focused on mercy and justice. As we continue a local mercy initiative focused on Family Advocacy in 2026, we’ll spend each Sunday doing a deep dive into the Parable of the Good Samaritan and considering how showing mercy by loving our neighbor includes mission, service, and generosity.
January 4: What is Mercy and Who is My Neighbor?
January 11: Mission as Mercy
January 18: Service as Mercy
January 25: Generosity as Mercy