Take Off With Thomas Clark

Send us Fan Mail 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 this episode, Thomas shows that third place—the coffee shop, barber shop, gym, restaurant, park, sideline, or other place where people naturally gather—is...

Send us Fan Mail 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 spiritually neutral, but one of the ordinary places where the presence, peace, and Kingdom of God can become visible through faithful disciples. Drawing fr...

Send us Fan Mail 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 home is not a private fortress but a place that must come under His reign and participate in His mission. Drawing from Joshua 24:15, Matthew 5:14 and 16, a...

Send us Fan Mail  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 that Jesus does not only send His followers with His authority—He sends them with His pattern. Thomas explains that mission is not merely something we do occas...

Send us Fan Mail  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 this episode, Thomas shows that the mission of God did not arrive through distance, abstraction, or occasional religious activity, but through the embodied presence of...

Send us Fan Mail 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 enough—peace must be stewarded through faithful presence. Drawing from Luke 10 and Acts 16, this conversation challenges listeners to move beyond hurried, sur...

Send us Fan Mail  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 are the seedbed of leadership, leadership helps form churches, and reproducing churches can become part of movements. Drawing from this movemental sequence, he...

Send us Fan Mail  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 listeners to move beyond inherited Western church instincts and embrace a more movemental imagination for disciple-making. Thomas walks through shifts such as...

Send us Fan Mail  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, and teaching matters—but knowledge alone does not guarantee transformation. Drawing from the words of Jesus, this conversation challenges listeners to move be...

Send us Fan Mail 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 that what we count reveals what we actually value. If we only measure attendance, visibility, and activity, we may feel successful while discipleship stays s...

Send us Fan Mail  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 episode, Thomas explains that Jesus did not call spectators, consumers, or admirers at a distance—He called disciples. Drawing from the Gospels and the life of Je...

Send us Fan Mail  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 cannot remain a statement we affirm without becoming a reality that shapes how we live. In this episode, Thomas explores how the reign of Jesus restore...

Send us Fan Mail  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 shows that when the early church confessed Jesus as Lord, they were not making a private religious statement—they were declaring public loyalty to a different...

Send us Fan Mail  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, dominance, and the misuse of authority, this episode reframes power through the life of Jesus. Drawing from Mark 10, Philippians 2, John 13, Micah 6:8, and Mat...

Send us Fan Mail 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. Many of us can affirm Jesus as Lord and still resist His leadership, and that contradiction reveals how we’ve been shaped by a version of faith where Jesus is per...

Send us Fan Mail 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 casual, private, or devotional-only? What if it was always intended to disrupt, confront, and reorder everything? In this episode, Thomas explores how this early Christi...

Send us Fan Mail 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 ordinary followers of Jesus live reproducible lives in everyday places. Building on the foundations laid throughout the season—presence, rhythms, pra...

Send us Fan Mail 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, but by simple, repeatable practices that shape everyday life. Building on the previous episode about relationships becoming pathways, Thomas asks...

Send us Fan Mail 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 movemental truth many believers miss—peace may open the door, but pathways move people forward . Thomas unpacks how God doesn’t just connect us to people of peace—He turns...

Send us Fan Mail 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 purpose, this episode moves from where God sends us to who God highlights as He sends us. Rather than offering a formula or strategy, Thomas names what...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Take Off Podcast , Thomas Clark explores a vital discipleship truth: we are scattered on purpose and sent to specific places . While God gathers His people for formation, He intentionally scatters them for mission—not randomly, but with divine purpose. Drawing from Scripture and lived experience within a disciple-making movement, Thomas clarifies two common...

Send us Fan Mail In Season 5, Episode 2 of the Take Off Podcast , Thomas Clark explores a foundational truth for disciple-making movements: God does not send isolated individuals—He sends a people . Drawing from Scripture and lived experience, this episode challenges the deeply individualistic assumptions many of us carry and invites listeners to rediscover God’s design for mission as communal, sh...

Send us Fan Mail In this opening episode of Season 5, Thomas Clark lays a foundation that quietly reshapes everything we believe about discipleship, mission, and the Church. On a “capital C” level, the Church of Jesus Christ does not have a mission— God has a mission , and the Church exists because of it. Thomas explains why phrases like “the church has a mission” or “we need to do more mission” c...

Send us Fan Mail "You may retire from employment, but you never retire from discipleship." In the conclusion of this two-part conversation, Thomas Clark and Ruth Price dive deep into the "Third Place" —those community hangouts like gardens, town halls, and local festivals where social momentum is built. Ruth shares her incredible journey of becoming "the church" at th...

Send us Fan Mail In the world of disciple-making, "watching" is a bad word. We don't watch—we engage . In this episode of this powerful series, Thomas Clark sits down with his long-time friend and "mission partner," Ruth Price. At 77 years young, Ruth is a living testimony that God’s call on your life doesn't have a retirement date. Operating out of the historical Aus...