Dominique uses Scripture to elucidate how privilege emerges from sin, is sustained by our hardened hearts, and keeps us complicit with oppression. It will lead the church to grapple with privilege, indifference, and systemic sin in new ways, through canonically elevating these issues.

This book will cast a new vision for faithful participation in the inbreaking kingdom as co-laborers with Christ.

Their faithful witness serves as a practical model for our modern context. In Subversive Witness, Dominique DuBois Gilliard will highlight biblical examples of privileged people who understood this kingdom call. Scripture repeatedly affirms that privilege is real and declares that, rather than exploiting it for selfish gain or feeling immobilized by it, Christians have an opportunity to steward privilege and a responsibility to leverage it to further the kingdom and sacrificially love our neighbors. Privilege is largely a social consequence of our unwillingness to reckon with and turn from sin. Our lack of repentance conforms us to the patterns of this world, keeping us content amid sinful inequities, complicit with systemic injustice, and apathetic in oppressive context. This domesticated, unbiblical understanding of repentance bears no fruit and lacks the power to transform broken people, relationships, systems, and structures. Rather than truly turning away from sin-back to God-we often equate repentance with a mere oral confession. While preparing the way for the Lord, John the Baptist declares, 'Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.' Many have failed to do this, in part, because repentance has become diluted.

Subversive kingdom