Leadership
Lead Pastor Josh Chien (aka TruthJCC)
Pastor Josh is the founding and lead pastor of Living Stones Christian Church (LSCC).
Philippians 1:21 "For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain. (NET)
A "tentmaking" bi-vocational minister with a heart for raising up leaders, networking, and launching gospel-centered, Kingdom minded ministries & churches. Current passion is for Young Adults, Young Professionals, and Young Families in their 20s and 30s. Pastor Josh and his wife Jenny have three children, daughters Joelle & Josie and son Jacob.
Hobbies: SJ Sharks, iPad, Chick-fil-A, Cosby Show & Wiffle Ball
Pastor Josh is the founding and lead pastor of Living Stones Christian Church (LSCC).
Philippians 1:21 "For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain. (NET)
A "tentmaking" bi-vocational minister with a heart for raising up leaders, networking, and launching gospel-centered, Kingdom minded ministries & churches. Current passion is for Young Adults, Young Professionals, and Young Families in their 20s and 30s. Pastor Josh and his wife Jenny have three children, daughters Joelle & Josie and son Jacob.
- 10+ years at Electronics Manufacturing Services Company, Sanmina-SCI
- M.Div, Western Theological Seminary (*10 years running...)
- BS, Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Hobbies: SJ Sharks, iPad, Chick-fil-A, Cosby Show & Wiffle Ball
Core Values
Here are the core characteristics of LSCC
- Faithful,
- Fervent,
- Followers, that are
- Family, with a lot of
- Fun & Funny
2012 Theme: "Eternal Ambition"
"So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.”
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
" So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him" 2 Corinthians 5:92012
Eternal Ambition
The Eternal Ambition One Year Experiment (adapted from Radical Experiment, David Platt)
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
" So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him" 2 Corinthians 5:92012
Eternal Ambition
- Evaluation of the trajectory of our aims/ambitions
- Concentrated Aim to please God
- Remaining in the spiritual, unseen state while in the world
- Personal Spiritual Growth
The Eternal Ambition One Year Experiment (adapted from Radical Experiment, David Platt)
- To pray for one person life to be changed, our church, and the entire world
- To read through the entire Word
- To commit our lives to multiplying community
- To sacrifice our money for a specific purpose for the gospel
- To give our time in another context
- To take a responsibility for God where other can rely on you
Leadership Vision
Every church has a part to play in a common purpose for the ministry of gospel of Jesus Christ for the Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. This is how we describe our approach, our part, our call... our style.
Philosophy of Ministry
Foundations of our church plant
Our Style for Serving
Philosophy of Ministry
- Full-time Ministers: We all play a part, we all serve, we bring what we have and give to one another.
- Empowered Start-up: Like a R&D Lab. Take a chance, calculated risks. Developing bold approaches to ministry utilizing the resources and technology available to us.
- Gospel-centered / Missional: Young Adults and young families in the Silicon Valley and beyond.
- Post-Numbers: Faithfulness is key. Focusing on the deeper letting others focus on the wider. Ministry success is driven by being faithful rather $ and #'s. Remaining a community of 50-100 people that grow other 50-100 communities.
- Strategic Collaboration: We are not alone, we want to come alongside church, para-churches, missions, and social justice organization and help where we can.
Foundations of our church plant
- Sound Bible teaching
- Authentic community and worship
- Missionary strategic
- Committed to raising up spiritual leaders for the next generation
- Partnering and working with other churches, para-churches, and missions/compassions/social justice organizations
- Mobilize a generation to be full-time ministers in the Silicon Valley wherever they are working
Our Style for Serving
- Conviction not compulsion
- Motivated by Love for God & the People
- Consider this your Spiritual Family and Home
- Empowerment: Want to guide and get out of the way
Wild Card Sundays
Wild Card Sunday's opens up space and opportunities for us to minister on Sunday's.
Suggested Wild Card Plans
1. Visit another church (with a friend or other LSCC members)
2. Meet up with your non-Christian friends.
3. Go “people-watching” and pray for them. Don't forget to read your Bible as well!
4. Have a family worship or personal retreat.
Things to Avoid
1. Sleeping in and being lazy.
2. Work
3. Watching TV
4. Running errands or cleaning
Statement of Faith
NOTE: If you completely get this, you should go to seminary.
1. We believe the Bible to be the inspired; it is the only infallible, entirely trustworthy, authoritative Word of God. The Bible alone and in its entirety, is the Word of God written and is therefore inerrant in the autographs.
2. We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. God is a Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, each an uncreated person, one in essence, equal in power and glory.
3. We believe in the deity and kingship of our Lord Jesus the Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood on the cross, in His bodily resurrection on the third day, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory as King.
4. We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful people it is by faith in our Lord Jesus the Christ and regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.
5. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life and purposed to witness and work for the ministry of the Kingdom.
6. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
7. We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus the Christ with Jesus as the head of the church, who dwells amongst the saints, and the evidence of that unity being shown by how we love one another.
1. We believe the Bible to be the inspired; it is the only infallible, entirely trustworthy, authoritative Word of God. The Bible alone and in its entirety, is the Word of God written and is therefore inerrant in the autographs.
2. We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. God is a Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, each an uncreated person, one in essence, equal in power and glory.
3. We believe in the deity and kingship of our Lord Jesus the Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood on the cross, in His bodily resurrection on the third day, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory as King.
4. We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful people it is by faith in our Lord Jesus the Christ and regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.
5. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life and purposed to witness and work for the ministry of the Kingdom.
6. We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
7. We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus the Christ with Jesus as the head of the church, who dwells amongst the saints, and the evidence of that unity being shown by how we love one another.
