Take Off With Thomas Clark

Send us Fan Mail In Part 2 of my conversation with Timothy Bell , we continue exploring how a Disciple Making Movement (DMM) meets the real needs of real communities by showing up where people actually live, work, and gather. Timothy reflects on what it means to be incarnate among neighbors who face cultural tension, insecurity, and fear—especially in a community where he is one of only two non-Hi...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Take Off Podcast , we continue our Season 4 series exploring how a Disciple Making Movement (DMM) helps meet the needs of the community . Thomas Clark welcomes Timothy Bell — a long-time friend, servant leader, husband, father, and now grandfather — to share how he lives as an incarnate presence of Jesus in his everyday context. Building on the foundation th...

Send us Fan Mail In Part 2 of our conversation with Nicky Adams , we go deeper into how a Disciple-Making Movement (DMM) helps reveal and meet the real needs of a community—not just the surface ones we often assume. Nicky unpacks how she has learned to discern needs by being present, listening, engaging in real conversations, and honoring every person as God’s Imago Dei . She shares how offering f...

Send us Fan Mail In this first conversation with Nicky Adams , Thomas Clark continues Season 4’s deep dive into how a Disciple Making Movement (DMM) helps meet real needs in real communities. Nicky shares powerfully about her journey toward becoming truly incarnate —showing up in the flesh where she lives, just as Christ shows up through His followers. She talks about learning to step outside her...

Send us Fan Mail In Part 2 of “How a Disciple-Making Movement Helps Meet the Needs of the Community,” Thomas Clark continues his conversation with Stevyn and Juguana Bonner , pressing into what incarnational presence looks like in our third places —the everyday spaces we hang out. From youth sports stands where students know Stevyn as “Pops,” to spontaneous invitations for neighbors to join the fa...

Send us Fan Mail In Season 4, Episode 5 of the Take Off Podcast , Thomas Clark welcomes Stephen and Juguana Bonner to continue our series on how a Disciple Making Movement (DMM) meets the real needs of a community. Together they unpack what it means to live incarnationally —to let Jesus show up through us in our first, second, and third places (where we live, work, learn, play, and hang out). From...

Send us Fan Mail In Season 4, Episode 4 of the Take Off Podcast , Thomas Clark continues his rich conversation with missional pastor and ICU nurse Nalisha Logan in Part 2 of “How a Disciple Making Movement Helps Meet the Needs of the Community.” Building on Part 1, this episode dives deeper into how we actually discern and address the real needs of the places where we live, work, learn, and play....

Send us Fan Mail In this first part of a special series, Take Off with Thomas Clark explores how a Disciple Making Movement (DMM) helps meet the real and diverse needs of our communities. Thomas is joined by Nalisha Logan , a missional pastor at The Launching Pad Worldwide and ICU nurse, who shares her powerful journey of living missionally in every space she inhabits — from her neighborhood to he...

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...