Jesus Moved Into The Neighborhood

Jesus Moved Into The Neighborhood

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2504153/fan_mail/new]  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 [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2504153/support] 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

From Peace to Multiplication

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2504153/fan_mail/new] 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 instead remain present long enough for trust, discipleship, and multiplication to take root in households, networks, and everyday relationships. Thomas explains that multiplication often begins not with a crowd, but with a household, a relationship, or a circle of trust where God has already opened the door. This episode closes with a practical “I Will” statement to help listeners identify one place where God has already opened relational peace and take one intentional step to stay, deepen trust, and invest there. Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2504153/support] 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

From Disciples to Leaders to Movements

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2504153/fan_mail/new]  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 resist the temptation to chase titles, platforms, or visible outcomes before giving themselves fully to the slow, deep work of disciple-making. This conversation highlights why leadership must rise from formation, why churches are healthiest when they emerge from reproducing disciples and leaders, and why movements grow only when each layer keeps reproducing from a healthy root. The episode closes with a practical “I Will” statement to help listeners identify one way they can invest more intentionally in discipleship as the foundation for what they hope God will reproduce later.  Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2504153/support] 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

Paradigm Shifts for Movement Mindset

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2504153/fan_mail/new]  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 strategy, planting the gospel in existing relationships, obedience-based discipleship, discovery-based learning, sending the ordinary and willing, discipling groups of people, discipling to and through conversion, viral multiplication, and expecting spiritual families and microchurches rather than limiting church to inherited forms. This conversation shows that disciple-making will not become more faithful, accessible, and reproducible until our mindset changes. The episode closes with a practical “I Will” statement to help listeners identify one mindset shift they need to make and take one concrete step to live it out.  Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2504153/support] 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

Obedience-Based Discipleship

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2504153/fan_mail/new]  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 admiring, and instead ask whether the truth of Christ is actually being obeyed and embodied in everyday life. Thomas explains that movements do not grow because people accumulate the most information, but because ordinary people hear Jesus, obey Jesus, and help others do the same. This episode also highlights the importance of discovery-based learning, where truth is not merely received passively but becomes actionable, discussable, and reproducible in community. It closes with a practical “I Will” statement to help listeners identify one thing Jesus is calling them to obey and take one concrete step toward living it out.  Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2504153/support] 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