Take Off With Thomas Clark

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I help equip you to bring the peace of God to places you live, work, learn, and play. All for His glory! 

  1. 3d ago

    Function Before Title: Recovering APEST for the Whole Body

    Send us Fan Mail 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, and teachers are not meant to become competing titles, but functions of Christ’s ministry expressed through His people for the strengthening of the whole body. The issue is not simply what someone is called. The issue is whether their contribution helps equip the saints, mature the church, and participate in the mission of God. This episode helps listeners shift from asking, “What am I called?” to asking, “How is Jesus using me to strengthen His body?” Thomas also explores why every APEST function needs maturity, character, humility, and the fruit of the Spirit. A function is not proven by what a person claims; it is proven by what their contribution strengthens in the body. This week’s “I Will” challenge invites listeners to identify one way Jesus may be using them to strengthen His body and take one step to contribute without needing a title first. Be sure to click Follow and engage with the podcast on your favorite platform so you do not miss future episodes. Support the show Take Off is a disciple-making podcast designed to equip everyday followers of Jesus to live missionally where they live, work, learn, and play. Supporters help sustain this work and receive short bonus reflections each week that go deeper into the themes of the episode—offering additional insight, pastoral encouragement, and formation-focused teaching. Supporting is not about buying content, but partnering in the slow, faithful work of making disciples who make disciples. https://www.facebook.com/bishopthomas.clark/ https://www.youtube.com/@taclark4 https://www.taclark4ministries.com/ https://x.com/TAClark4

    Function Before Title: Recovering APEST for the Whole Body

  2. Jul 21

    Jesus Was Apostolic

    Send us Fan Mail 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, came near, entered the world, formed disciples, and then sent His followers. Through Ephesians 4, Thomas shows that Jesus gave gifts to His body so ministry would not be centralized in one leader, but activated throughout the whole church. This episode challenges leader-centric models of ministry and invites listeners to see the church as the presence of Jesus, in and through the people of Jesus, everywhere, all the time. APEST is not about climbing over one another. It is about contributing together so the body reflects Jesus more fully. This week’s “I Will” challenge invites listeners to ask Jesus how He has gifted them to contribute to the maturity and mission of His body. Be sure to click Follow and engage with the podcast on your favorite platform so you do not miss future episodes. Support the show Take Off is a disciple-making podcast designed to equip everyday followers of Jesus to live missionally where they live, work, learn, and play. Supporters help sustain this work and receive short bonus reflections each week that go deeper into the themes of the episode—offering additional insight, pastoral encouragement, and formation-focused teaching. Supporting is not about buying content, but partnering in the slow, faithful work of making disciples who make disciples. https://www.facebook.com/bishopthomas.clark/ https://www.youtube.com/@taclark4 https://www.taclark4ministries.com/ https://x.com/TAClark4

    Jesus Was Apostolic

  3. Jul 14

    Tic-Tac-Toe Neighboring Challenge

    Send us Fan Mail 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 challenges listeners to draw a tic-tac-toe board, place their residence in the center, and fill the surrounding squares with the names of their neighbors. This simple practice helps expose whether we are truly paying attention to the people God has placed near us. The goal is not guilt or performance, but faithful engagement—learning names, noticing gaps, praying intentionally, and taking one concrete step toward presence. This episode reminds us that neighboring often begins not with grand gestures, but with ordinary repeated faithfulness. Mission becomes real when we stop letting the people closest to us remain anonymous and begin asking how God may already be at work around us. The episode closes with a practical “I Will” statement to help listeners identify one neighbor or household and take one intentional step toward faithful presence. Be sure to click Follow and engage with the podcast on your favorite podcast platform so you do not miss future episodes. Support the show Take Off is a disciple-making podcast designed to equip everyday followers of Jesus to live missionally where they live, work, learn, and play. Supporters help sustain this work and receive short bonus reflections each week that go deeper into the themes of the episode—offering additional insight, pastoral encouragement, and formation-focused teaching. Supporting is not about buying content, but partnering in the slow, faithful work of making disciples who make disciples. https://www.facebook.com/bishopthomas.clark/ https://www.youtube.com/@taclark4 https://www.taclark4ministries.com/ https://x.com/TAClark4

    Tic-Tac-Toe Neighboring Challenge

  4. Jul 7

    Third Place: Social Momentum Before Spiritual Momentum

    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 often where trust, openness, and relational access begin to form. Drawing from Luke 24:13–32, John 1:14, and a missional-incarnational approach to everyday life, this conversation presses the truth that in a post-Christian age, social momentum is often the relational pathway that makes mission intelligible. Thomas explains why third place matters, why we must learn the language and culture of the people in our contexts, and why disciple-makers should not confuse spiritual pressure with spiritual fruitfulness. He also highlights how Jesus moved from presence to conversation, from conversation to truth, and from truth to shared table. This episode closes with a practical “I Will” statement to help listeners identify one third place in their lives and take one intentional step to build trust, presence, and social momentum there with greater faithfulness. Be sure to click Follow and engage with the podcast on your favorite podcast platform so you do not miss future episodes.  Support the show Take Off is a disciple-making podcast designed to equip everyday followers of Jesus to live missionally where they live, work, learn, and play. Supporters help sustain this work and receive short bonus reflections each week that go deeper into the themes of the episode—offering additional insight, pastoral encouragement, and formation-focused teaching. Supporting is not about buying content, but partnering in the slow, faithful work of making disciples who make disciples. https://www.facebook.com/bishopthomas.clark/ https://www.youtube.com/@taclark4 https://www.taclark4ministries.com/ https://x.com/TAClark4

    Third Place: Social Momentum Before Spiritual Momentum

  5. Jun 30

    Second Place: Work as a Mission Field

    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 from Colossians 3:23–24, Matthew 5:16, and the conviction that vocation can become a “mask of God,” this conversation presses the truth that if Jesus is Lord, then even our workday belongs to His Kingdom. Thomas explains why we should know and be known by the people with whom we work, why the workplace is not just a marketplace but a people place, and how ordinary faithfulness at work can prepare the ground for the gospel and make the reign of Jesus credible in everyday life. This episode closes with a practical “I Will” statement to help listeners take one intentional step toward becoming more faithfully present in their second place. Be sure to click Follow and engage with the podcast on your favorite podcast platform so you do not miss future episodes. Support the show Take Off is a disciple-making podcast designed to equip everyday followers of Jesus to live missionally where they live, work, learn, and play. Supporters help sustain this work and receive short bonus reflections each week that go deeper into the themes of the episode—offering additional insight, pastoral encouragement, and formation-focused teaching. Supporting is not about buying content, but partnering in the slow, faithful work of making disciples who make disciples. https://www.facebook.com/bishopthomas.clark/ https://www.youtube.com/@taclark4 https://www.taclark4ministries.com/ https://x.com/TAClark4

    Second Place: Work as a Mission Field

  6. Jun 23

    First Place: Kingdom Over Castle

    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, and the missional-incarnational impulse of everyday discipleship, this conversation presses the truth that the first mission field many of us must learn to see is the community in which we live. Thomas explains why residence is not the same as presence, why neighboring is part of discipleship, and why the Kingdom often begins to become visible when we stop overlooking the people closest to us. This episode closes with a practical “I Will” statement to help listeners take one intentional step toward becoming more faithfully present in their first place. Be sure to click Follow, then choose your preferred listening platform so you can listen there and stay connected to each new episode of the Take Off Podcast. Support the show Take Off is a disciple-making podcast designed to equip everyday followers of Jesus to live missionally where they live, work, learn, and play. Supporters help sustain this work and receive short bonus reflections each week that go deeper into the themes of the episode—offering additional insight, pastoral encouragement, and formation-focused teaching. Supporting is not about buying content, but partnering in the slow, faithful work of making disciples who make disciples. https://www.facebook.com/bishopthomas.clark/ https://www.youtube.com/@taclark4 https://www.taclark4ministries.com/ https://x.com/TAClark4

    First Place: Kingdom Over Castle

  7. Jun 15

    Missional Incarnation Impulse

    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 occasionally, but a way of showing up in the flesh in the ordinary places of everyday life. This conversation challenges listeners to move beyond church attendance, platform language, and occasional ministry activity and instead embody the peace, presence, and love of Jesus in the places they already live, work, and gather. The episode closes with a practical “I Will” statement to help listeners identify one ordinary place where they can show up more faithfully as someone sent by Jesus.  Support the show Take Off is a disciple-making podcast designed to equip everyday followers of Jesus to live missionally where they live, work, learn, and play. Supporters help sustain this work and receive short bonus reflections each week that go deeper into the themes of the episode—offering additional insight, pastoral encouragement, and formation-focused teaching. Supporting is not about buying content, but partnering in the slow, faithful work of making disciples who make disciples. https://www.facebook.com/bishopthomas.clark/ https://www.youtube.com/@taclark4 https://www.taclark4ministries.com/ https://x.com/TAClark4

    Missional Incarnation Impulse

  8. Jun 8

    Jesus Moved Into The Neighborhood

    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 Jesus Christ. Drawing from John 1:14 and the life of Jesus, this conversation challenges listeners to move beyond admiring incarnation as doctrine and begin embodying it as a pattern for everyday life. Thomas explains why mission is not mainly about where we go occasionally, but about how we live where we already are, and why the gospel often takes root most deeply through presence before proclamation. This episode closes with a practical “I Will” statement to help listeners identify one place in their ordinary life where they can show up more faithfully as the presence of Jesus.  Support the show Take Off is a disciple-making podcast designed to equip everyday followers of Jesus to live missionally where they live, work, learn, and play. Supporters help sustain this work and receive short bonus reflections each week that go deeper into the themes of the episode—offering additional insight, pastoral encouragement, and formation-focused teaching. Supporting is not about buying content, but partnering in the slow, faithful work of making disciples who make disciples. https://www.facebook.com/bishopthomas.clark/ https://www.youtube.com/@taclark4 https://www.taclark4ministries.com/ https://x.com/TAClark4

    Jesus Moved Into The Neighborhood
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  • Creator
    Thomas
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    56
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