Take Off With Thomas Clark
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Episodes
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 shallow.
This conversation calls liste...
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 Jesus, this conversation challenges lis...
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 restores rather than crushes, brings order r...
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 King. Drawing from the first-century...
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 Matthew 5, Thomas shows that Jesus does ...
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 personal but not authoritative. If Jesus...
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 Christian confession carried real weight in th...
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, practices, and pathways—this conversation...
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 an honest question: Why do so many dis...
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 those relationships into disciple-makin...
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 has proven faithful over time within a ...
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 errors in the Church today: staying ga...
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, shared, and embodied life together.
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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” can unintentionally make mission feel o...
"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 the Harambee Community Garden and beyond...
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 Austin neighborhood in Chicago, Ruth shar...
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-Hispanic residents on his block. Togeth...
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 that Christ transforms culture through H...
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 food or clothing may be helpful at time...
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 home, walk her neighborhood, talk with...
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