Obedience-Based Discipleship

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

Disciples Make Disciples — A New Scorecard

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2504153/fan_mail/new] 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 listeners to a better scorecard—one that measures formation, obedience, mission, and visible growth in Christlike maturity. Drawing from the seven markers of Organic Discipleship, Thomas shows that the right questions are not just who showed up, but whether people are engaging Scripture, growing in prayer, living on mission, and becoming more like Jesus in everyday life. This episode closes with a practical “I Will” statement to help listeners identify one marker of discipleship they need to strengthen and take one concrete step forward.  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

Jesus Calls Disciples

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2504153/fan_mail/new]  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 listeners to move beyond a version of Christianity centered on attendance, information, and passive listening, and instead embrace discipleship as relational formation, active obedience, and participation in the mission of Jesus. Thomas also introduces the need for a new scorecard—one rooted not in buildings, budgets, and bodies, but in spiritual maturity and missionary behaviors such as biblical engagement, prayer, worship, service, generosity, community, and outreach. This episode closes with a practical “I Will” statement to help listeners take one concrete step from passive learning to active obedience as they follow Jesus in everyday life.  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