Subversive Witness Video Study

by Dominique DuBois Gilliard

Publisher:

Zondervan

, 2021

Overview

In the Subversive Witness Video Study, Dominique DuBois Gilliard inspires groups and individuals to reimagine how they think about privilege and exercise power. Instead of denying the existence of privilege or feeling incapacitated by it, Christians can learn to wield privilege as an instrument to advance the kingdom and sacrificially love our neighbors.

Gilliard illustrates how the faithful witness of biblical figures, from Esther to Zacchaeus, provides a blueprint for modern believers. By embodying Scripture's subversive call to leverage—and at times forsake—privilege, you will learn to love your neighbors sacrificially, enact systemic change, and grow more Christlike as a citizen of God’s kingdom.

Contents

• Understanding Privilege and Its Power (16 min)
• The Church in Acts 6: Leveraging Privilege to Resist Systemic Sin (14 min)
• Vashti and Esther: Leveraging Privilege to Stand in Solidarity (17 min)
• Moses: Leveraging Privilege to Birth Liberation (18 min)
• Paul and Silas: Leveraging Privilege to Create Systemic Change (16 min)
• Jesus: Abandoning and Leveraging Privilege to Proclaim the Good News (17 min)
• Zacchaeus: Leveraging Privilege to Foster Social Transformation (21 min)
• Scripture’s Call to Repentance: Producing Fruit in Keeping with Repentance (21 min)

Product Details

• Title: Subversive Witness, Video Study: Scripture's Call to Leverage Privilege
• Author: Dominique DuBois Gilliard
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Video
• Subjects: Christianity and justice; Distributive justice › Religious aspects--Christianity; Social justice › Religious aspects--Christianity; FLTV › Zondervan
• Resource ID: LLS:SBVRSVWTNSSVDST
• Resource Type: Media
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-02-10T21:09:36Z

About Dominique DuBois Gilliard

Dominique DuBois Gilliard is the director of racial righteousness and reconciliation for the Love Mercy Do Justice (LMDJ) initiative of the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC). He serves on the boards of directors for the Christian Community Development Association and Evangelicals for Justice. In 2015, he was selected as one of the ECC’s “40 Under 40” leaders to watch, and the Huffington Post named him one of the “Black Christian Leaders Changing the World.” An ordained minister, Gilliard has served in pastoral ministry in Atlanta, Chicago, and Oakland. He was executive pastor of New Hope Covenant Church in Oakland, California and also served in Oakland as the associate pastor of Convergence Covenant Church. He was also the campus minister at North Park University and the racial righteousness director for ECC’s ministry initiatives in the Pacific Southwest Conference. With articles published in the CCDA Theology Journal, The Covenant Quarterly, and Sojourners, Gilliard has also blogged for Christianity Today, Faith & Leadership, Red Letter Christians, Do Justice, and The Junia Project. He earned a bachelor’s degree in African American Studies from Georgia State University and a master’s degree in history from East Tennessee State University, with an emphasis on race, gender, and class in the United States. He also earned an MDiv from North Park Seminary, where he served as an adjunct professor teaching Christian ethics, theology, and reconciliation.