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
In Season 9, Episode 5 of the Take Off Podcast, Thomas Clark continues the conversation on APEST and the Collective with an episode titled Living an Apostolic Life.
In this episode, Thomas helps listeners recover apostolic life not as a title, office, denomination, rank, or personality type, but as a sent life of obedience to Jesus. Apostolic life is about being available to go where Jesus sends, start what He gives,...
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 together in the body of Christ.
This episode, Different Gifts, One Mission: How the APEST Hand Strengthens the Body, uses the hand metaphor to show that APEST is not about competing offices, tit...
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 Jesus’ ministry alone.
In this episode, "Beyond the Solo Leader Why Movements Need the Whole Body” Thomas shares lessons learned over years of pastoral ministry and challenges the s...
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 not given so people could chase recognition. It was given so the body of Christ could mature.
Drawing from Ephesians 4:11–13, Thomas explains that apostles, prophets, evangelists, shepherds, an...
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 types. It begins with Jesus.
Before the church carries apostolic, prophetic, evangelistic, shepherding, and teaching functions, Jesus embodied the fullness of all five. He was sent by the Father...
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 exploring incarnational living in first, second, and third places, this episode turns the conversation toward one simple but revealing question: Do I actually know the people around me?
Thomas challe...
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 often where trust, openn...
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 from Colossians 3:23–24, Matthew ...
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, and the missional-incarnational impuls...
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 occasionally, but a way of show...
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 Jesus Christ. Drawing from John ...
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, surface-level engagement and instea...
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 challenges listeners to res...
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 extraordinary prayer over human ...
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 beyond hearing, agreeing, and...
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 ...
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 cha...
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 or...
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...
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 ...
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