On this page, we provide ways to acquire and/or contact resources that may be useful to you in your participation here at the site and in your efforts to grow more into echad with your brothers and sisters in Messiah.
We fully embrace that there are many different resources available for you to use to support your participation in the Echad Project as well as your own personal Spiritual development. We do encourage you to check out many of the different options when studying on your own. However, we do believe that it is good for us to use common sources while working together to re-establish echad so that we do not bring confusion into our conversations by referencing different translations of Scripture and/or significantly different interpretations of and/or commentaries about Scriptural meaning. We do not endorse any particular option that we have not produced. We have simply made a choice of what we consider to be either the most convenient or the most commonly available/used so that all in the yachad have good opportunity to have these resources readily available to them while working with each other to learn and grow.
We provide links to online tools that we encourage you to use while participating in the yachad both here on the Resources page and throughout the site as needed. Please note that many of these online resources we have listed are, much like us, user supported. We strongly encourage you to make contributions to their continued support to thank them for being available for our use. The Echad Project does, on occasion, make small contributions to some of these resources from our Storehouse, but please do not assume that we will make a contribution on your behalf or that we are partnering with the sites we provide as resources. They are independent of us. We hope you find these resources to be useful to you far beyond your use of them while participating here.
When we reference Scripture at this site, we do so in English, and we use the King James Version that is available through Blue Letter Bible.
Blue Letter Bible as an online Bible tool. While we cite from the King James, we recommend use of the HCSB version that is available at Blue Letter Bible for use in Scripture Chat and Scripture Quest as the use of more modern English structures makes it perhaps a little easier to use.
Scripture 4 All as an online Interlinear tool. The Blue Letter Interlinear does not always include all of the Hebrew words, so we recommend taking a look at this site to see what may have been "left out" when you use the Blue Letter Bible study tools.
Strong's Concordance we find that the "tools" that are available through Blue Letter Bible are the most convenient to use, but we also find that the Concordance references at Bible Hub provide a somewhat more comprehensive source of Hebrew and Greek word meanings. Bible Hub is just not quite as user friendly as is Blue Letter Bible. So, we recommend using both together by using Blue Letter Bible tools for quick reference and Bible Hub for a second witness.
We always appreciate opportunities to add new useful resources to our list, so please contact us if you would like to recommend resources for us to add to our list.
Katheryn Skinner and Sue Johnson, who are members of the Echad Project Team, are in process of writing books that provide both insight into the Kingdom principles we are trying to put into practice at the site and practical information about how to extend the practice of being echad into your communities, your families, and your interactions with the world. As those books become available, we will list them here along with information regarding how to acquire them. There are also other books that we have found to be particularly useful in helping us understand how the early communities of believers maintained their state of echad. We provide information about how to acquire those books here as well.
Not all books in the list are currently available.
!!Coming Soon!!Diversity vs Divisiveness - Bringing the Body back to Echad - a study of our Heavenly Father's desire for diversity in His creation as it was meant to be played out in His Church compared to the divisiveness that has entered the Body and led to the development of thousands of different denominations around the world whose members separate themselves from other believers because of doctrinal differences with conclusions about how we might correct this divisiveness and return the Body to the state of echad in which we are meant to be found.
The Early Christians in their own Words - Eberhad Arnold provides his own interpretation of his readings and a collection of first hand accounts of the very early church in both the words of members of various assemblies and of those who were their critics, detractors, and persecutors. In this book, we can see the practices of the church from about 140 CE until the early 300's CE. This book takes up where the book of Acts and the Letters contained in the New Testament leave off and can be used to help us understand how our very earliest brothers and sisters in Messiah were able to maintain a state of echad.
We always appreciate opportunities to add new useful resources to our list, so please contact us if you would like to recommend resources for us to add to our list.
Members of the Echad Project team are happy to consult with you to help you in your efforts to establish echad in your assembly. We are also available to speak to groups and to help you conduct echad building retreats. Please contact us if we can help you in any way.
We always appreciate opportunities to add new useful resources to our list, so please contact us if you would like to recommend resources for us to add to our list.