Community Covenant

Section 1: The Nature of the Covenant

Membership in Thronos is more than access to an organization or platform.

It is an agreement to participate in a community of people who seek to grow, build, serve, and help one another.

By joining Thronos, a member agrees to uphold the character and purposes of the organization and to contribute, according to their ability, to the health of the community.

This covenant does not require every member to possess the same abilities, beliefs about every matter, interests, or ambitions.

It requires a shared commitment to the principles upon which Thronos is founded.

Section 2: We Will Help and Be Helped

Members of Thronos agree to be willing both to give help and to receive help.

No member is expected to know everything, possess every skill, or solve every problem alone.

A member may ask for knowledge, advice, encouragement, collaboration, accountability, or other forms of assistance appropriate to the community.

Likewise, members are encouraged to offer what they can when another person is in need.

The purpose is not to create dependency, but mutual growth.

A person may enter the community needing help and, through growth and experience, eventually become someone capable of helping others.

We therefore reject the posture of the permanent observer: someone who continually receives from the community while refusing every reasonable opportunity to contribute to it.

Section 3: We Will Treat One Another With Dignity

Members agree to treat one another with dignity, patience, honesty, and love.

We recognize that people will differ in personality, experience, ability, background, profession, age, ambition, and stage of life.

These differences are not obstacles to community.

Members should therefore seek to encourage rather than humiliate, correct rather than condemn, and disagree without treating disagreement as permission for contempt.

The Christian character of Thronos requires that the dignity of another person not depend upon their usefulness to us.