Take Off With Thomas Clark
I help equip you to bring the peace of God to places you live, work, learn, and play. All for His glory!
Episodes
61 episodes
Different Gifts, One Mission How the APEST Hand Strengthens the Body
In Season 9, Episode 4 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark continues the conversation on APEST and the Collective with a practical picture for how apostolic, prophetic, evangelistic, shepherding, and teaching functions work to...
Beyond the Solo Leader Why Movements Need the Whole Body
In Season 9, Episode 3 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark continues the conversation on APEST and the Collective with a transparent and deeply pastoral reflection on why no one person was ever meant to carry the fullness of J...
Function Before Title: Recovering APEST for the Whole Body
In Season 9, Episode 2 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark continues the conversation on APEST and the Collective by challenging listeners to stop treating APEST as titles, offices, ranks, or spiritual status.APEST was ...
Jesus Was Apostolic
In Season 9, Episode 1 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark begins a new season called APEST and the Collective by helping listeners understand that APEST does not begin with gifted leaders, titles, hierarchy, or personality ty...
Tic-Tac-Toe Neighboring Challenge
In Season 8, Episode 6 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark closes the season with Tic-Tac-Toe Neighboring Challenge, a practical episode designed to move listeners from missional imagination to embodied presence. After explori...
Third Place: Social Momentum Before Spiritual Momentum
In Season 8, Episode 5 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark explores Third Place: Social Momentum Before Spiritual Momentum and challenges listeners to rethink how disciple-making often begins in everyday relational spaces. In ...
Second Place: Work as a Mission Field
In Season 8, Episode 4 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark explores Second Place: Work as a Mission Field and challenges listeners to see their workplace through a Kingdom lens. In this episode, Thomas shows that work is not s...
First Place: Kingdom Over Castle
In Season 8, Episode 3 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark explores First Place: Kingdom Over Castle and challenges listeners to rethink the place they call home. In this episode, Thomas shows that if Jesus is Lord, then our h...
Missional Incarnation Impulse
In Season 8, Episode 2 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark explores the missional-incarnational impulse by asking what the incarnation of Jesus requires of those He now sends. Drawing from John 20:21, this episode shows ...
Jesus Moved Into The Neighborhood
In Season 8, Episode 1 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark begins a new season on incarnational living in first, second, and third places by exploring a foundational truth: Jesus moved into the neighborhood. In th...
From Peace to Multiplication
In Season 7, Episode 6 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark closes the season by exploring how reproducing disciple-making moves from peace to multiplication. In this episode, Thomas shows that recognizing openness is not enoug...
From Disciples to Leaders to Movements
In Season 7, Episode 5 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark explores why movements do not begin with scale, structure, or visibility—they begin with disciples who reproduce. In this episode, Thomas shows that disciples ar...
Paradigm Shifts for Movement Mindset
In Season 7, Episode 4 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark explores the mindset shifts required for discipleship that reproduces. Building from the 9 paradigm shifts identified by KC Underground, this episode challenges ...
Obedience-Based Discipleship
In Season 7, Episode 3 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark explores why discipleship that reproduces must be built on obedience, not just information. In this episode, Thomas shows that knowledge matters, truth matters, ...
Disciples Make Disciples — A New Scorecard
In Season 7, Episode 2 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark asks a needed question: How do we know whether disciple-making is actually happening? This episode challenges the scorecard many churches have inherited and argues tha...
Jesus Calls Disciples
In Season 7, Episode 1 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark begins a new season focused on discipleship that reproduces by asking a foundational question: What kind of discipleship did Jesus actually practice? In this epi...
Jesus Is Lord — Life Under His Reign
In Season 6, Episode 5 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark brings the season to its final and practical conclusion by asking: What does it actually look like to live under the reign of Jesus? If Jesus is Lord, then His lordship...
Jesus Is Lord — Allegiance Reordered
In Season 6, Episode 4 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark explores what it really means to say, “Jesus is Lord.” If Jesus is Lord, then our allegiance cannot remain divided. It must be reordered. In this episode, Thomas...
Jesus Is Lord — Power Reimagined
In Season 6, Episode 3 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark explores a question many people feel but do not always know how to name: If Jesus is Lord, what does His power actually look like? In a world shaped by control, dominan...
Jesus Is Lord — What This Means for Us
What does it actually mean for Jesus to be Lord of us? In this episode, Thomas Clark brings the confession “Jesus is Lord” out of the abstract and into everyday life—because lordship isn’t just theology, it’s formation. M...
Jesus Is Lord — What This Means for the World
In Season 6, Episode 1 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark revisits one of the most familiar—and most misunderstood—confessions of the Christian faith: “Jesus is Lord.”What if this phrase was never meant to be ca...
From Practices to People Who Multiply Living a Reproducible Life
In this episode of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark explores what it truly means to move from faithful practices to multiplying people. Disciple-making movements don’t grow through models, programs, or personalities—they grow when ordi...
From Pathways to Practices The Rhythms That Sustain Disciple-Making
Disciple-making is not a short burst of passion—it’s a way of life sustained through shared rhythms. In this episode of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark explores how disciple-making movements are sustained not by intensity or events,...
From Peace to Pathways: How Relationships Become Disciple-Making Spaces
In Season 5, Episode 5 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark builds on the last episode’s focus on persons of peace and takes the next step: What happens after peace is discovered? This conversation explores a move...
From Places to People Recognizing Persons of Peace
In this episode of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark explores a crucial shift in disciple-making: God sends us to places, but He reveals His mission through people. Building on the previous conversation about being scattered on...
