Take Off With Thomas Clark

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Take Off with Thomas Clark , listeners are invited to bridge the gap between believing in Jesus and living as His disciple in everyday life. Thomas challenges us to take the next step — not just in our personal growth, but in helping others follow Jesus as disciple-makers. Rooted in Acts 11:26, he reminds us that the early believers were first called “Christians...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 of Take Off with Thomas Clark launches with a powerful reminder: a Disciple Making Movement (DMM) requires and releases empowered disciples. In this first episode, Thomas unpacks what it really means to move beyond simply believing in Jesus to actively following Him — growing, maturing, and helping others do the same. Drawing from John 15, Genesis 12, and Matthew 28, he e...

Send us Fan Mail In Season 3 of Take Off with Thomas Clark , we’re exploring how followers of Jesus can live with both power and humility, authority and compassion — what it means to embody the robust gospel in a world filled with outrage and imbalance. Episode 11, We Need Biblical Community , calls us back to the core rhythms that shaped Jesus’ own life: Up, In, and Out. He spent time up with the...

Send us Fan Mail 🎙️ Episode 10: A DMM Helps Remove Ministry Barriers and Limitations In this episode of Take Off with Thomas Clark , we explore how Disciple-Making Movements (DMMs) strip away the barriers and limitations that have long kept the church from multiplying as it did in its first 200 years—when there were no buildings, no budgets, and no big names , yet the Gospel spread like wildfire....

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Take Off with Thomas Clark , where we equip everyday followers of Jesus to bring the peace of God into the places they live, work, learn, and play—all for His glory. Every problem is a discipleship problem, and being a disciple doesn’t exempt us from struggle—it equips us to face it with faith, wisdom, and courage. My conviction is that Christ transforms culture through...

Send us Fan Mail 🎙️ Take Off with Thomas Clark Episode Title: Back to Basics Overview: For movement to happen, we must recover a local theology of a global Christ. In this episode, we go back to basics — rediscovering what it means to live with a missional incarnate impulse in the places we live, work, and play. Jesus didn’t stay distant; He showed up in the flesh. That’s our model for mission.  W...

Send us Fan Mail The Church is a Movement Christendom is over. The days of cultural Christianity, where the church sat at the center of society’s power and influence, are fading. But this is not a loss — it’s an opportunity. For genuine movement to happen, the church must reclaim its identity as a people shaped by a local theology of a global Christ — rooted in the places we live, yet connected to...

Send us Fan Mail I have some good news! Too often, the Gospel gets reduced to “fire insurance” — a ticket out of judgment. But the Good News of Jesus is far richer than that. The robust Gospel is the fulfillment of God’s promise to Abraham: redemption and restoration for all who submit to Christ, bringing us back into the shalom of God. This shalom isn’t just the absence of conflict — it’s justice...

Send us Fan Mail The Gospel is more than just the account of Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection. Those events are central, but when the Gospel is reduced only to that, it becomes a truncated Gospel. As Dallas Willard pointed out, the Gospel is not simply the minimum entrance requirement to get into heaven. He was also critical of teaching that reduced it to ‘fire insurance.’ A disciple-making...

Send us Fan Mail In a disciple-making movement, we do not wait for external factors or people to create the culture God has commissioned and empowered us to cultivate. Building on the discussion from the previous episode, we will discuss the idea that what we create helps make new things possible. If we truly want peace, it is essential to remember that as we cultivate Shalom and create new opport...

Send us Fan Mail People sometimes say they wish that "things would get better." The reality is that culture does not improve on its own. We cannot  undo what has been done, but we can still create a culture that includes and reflects God and can be very good. In this episode, we will discuss how culture will only become worse because of sin and selfishness, but followers of Christ have b...

Send us Fan Mail The best way to overcome outrage is to never give in to it in the first place, but that is sometimes challenging. Because we deal with people, knowing how to overcome outrage is essential. If there is a chance we may be hurt, upset, or outraged, it's probably going to be because of other people. Those who will be in and help begin a disciple-making movement need to overcome o...

Send us Fan Mail If we are going to have disciple-making movement, it is important to let others know that they can participate in ways that are contextually relevant. All of us have realms of life in which we have influence and power. The key is to see how to include God as we exercise that power and begin by sharing it with others. This is one reason why we must lower the power distance and then...

Send us Fan Mail The book of Ephesians, from which (APEST)  A postolic P rophetic E vangelistic S hepherding T eaching is taken, is known as the Constitution of the Church of Jesus Christ. It is time to stop simply seeing the church as a place to learn (teacher) or be fed (shepherd) and understand that God’s mission is larger and more comprehensive than internal ministry. He wants to redeem the wo...

Send us Fan Mail Jesus is the archetype A postle, P rophet, E vangelist, S hepherd, and T eacher ( APEST ). N. T. Wright has stated that when Jesus ascended to heaven, He left a Jesus-sized hole that no one person will ever be able to fill. That is one reason why He sent the gifts back down to the entire church. Jesus showed that being an apostle is not about authority, but being missional/sent to...

Send us Fan Mail How present are you in the places you live, work, learn, and play? What does peace look like in those places? Jesus did not just visit the earth; He resided among the very people He had been sent to disciple. As His disciples, we too must become embedded and show up in the flesh in all the places we find ourselves so that the mission will be lived. As followers of Christ, we do no...

Send us Fan Mail It was always God’s intention to run the world through humans, but humans would not cooperate. This meant that a new king had to come and put us on track. This could not be just any king; it had to be a human king. Through Jesus, God did not just visit the earth; He became human and resided among the very people He had been sent to disciple. In Jesus, God became Immanuel – God wit...

Send us Fan Mail There are several markers in the life of Jesus that can be used to help measure spiritual maturity. When we apply these markers to our lives as followers of Christ, they become our new scorecard, helping us see, evaluate, and measure our development in His mission. This becomes even more significant when we take on the responsibility of not only being a disciple of Jesus, but also...

Send us Fan Mail In the book Organic Disciples , Kevin Harney provides seven markers of Organic Discipleship. All of the markers were found in the life of Jesus. He required His disciples to live them as well, and these markers can be used to help measure our spiritual maturity. Jesus got His disciples involved in His ministry from the beginning of their time with Him. This helped prevent them fro...

Send us Fan Mail Too many followers of Christ live with what is called ‘the secular and sacred divide’. That is, there are parts of our lives that are sacred or belong to The Lord, and parts that are secular, or reserved for us. When we truly know the place of Jesus in our lives, we will be on fire for Him.  In this episode, we will discuss the significance and implications of not just saying, but...

Send us Fan Mail Many people say, “Jesus is Lord.” But what does that mean? In the Shema, God told Moses to instruct Israel to always remember that God is Lord. To say Yahweh is Lord was not meant to declare Who God is, which is only propositional; it was instead a pledge of complete allegiance to Him, which is shown in our obedience, surrender, and actions. Jesus is Lord means that there should b...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Stevyn Bonner joins me as we discuss the fact that followers of Christ do not do what we do in response to culture, but like Jesus, we are to go as obedient missionaries who have been sent by God and He will use us to help transform culture for His glory. Brad Brisco has stated that "Christians are not just the “called out,” we are the “sent out.” Because God...

Send us Fan Mail This is Season 2. This season, we will lay the foundation for beginning a disciple-making movement. God’s mission is not inside of the Church; it is in the world. As such, He sends the followers of Jesus into the world to carry out His mission. The mission of God is seen in 5 stages: creation, Fall, redemption, restoration, and New Creation. His mission is what He initiated in the...