THE INVERTEDGOSPEL
A history, a lexicon, and a way back — for anyone trying to tell two languages apart.
Grant D Muhl’s eleven-volume project traces how a specific, coherent system of belief has grown up inside the Charismatic, Pentecostal, Word of Faith, and New Apostolic Reformation movements — borrowing the historic Church’s own vocabulary while quietly redirecting it toward human control. Book One names the doctrines. Book Two catalogues the words. The nine volumes that follow carry the same research into history, recovery, practice, devotion, politics, biography, hermeneutics, and the global Church. Together, they are written as an act of love toward the Church, not hostility toward any person, congregation, or tradition.
Eleven Volumes,
One Research Project
The Inverted Gospel began as two volumes — a doctrinal diagnosis and its companion lexicon — and has grown into an eleven-book project spanning history, recovery, liturgy, pastoral practice, constructive theology, politics, biography, hermeneutics, and the global Church. Below is the full roadmap, in the order the project has been proposed, grouped into six editorial movements.
Seven volumes now have their own full page, linked below. The remaining four — Chronicles, the Nations, Architects, and the Global Church — are presented here as they stand: proposals in active development by the Association’s Research & Curriculum Development division, awaiting the fuller source material a complete page deserves.
The Inverted Gospel Matrix
How Modern Charismata Swapped Sovereign Grace for Human Control
The lead volume of the series. Twenty doctrines — faith, sovereignty, the nature of man, presence, authority, mediation, gifting, sanctification, the cross, grace, provision, suffering, the kingdom, warfare, prayer, and mission — each traced from its historic meaning to the meaning it now carries inside the movement under examination.
The Inverted Gospel Lexicon
How 120 Sacred Words Were Redefined to Serve Human Control
The companion volume to Book One, mirroring its chapter-for-chapter structure. Where Book One names the doctrines, this volume catalogues the 120-term vocabulary that carries them — each term classified Direct or Not Direct against Scripture, sourced, and set beside its charismatic meaning.
The Inverted Gospel Chronicles
How a Movement’s Family Tree Explains Its Fruit
The accessible, narrative-nonfiction companion to the department’s technical historical research. A four-part chronological history — the root, the catalyst, the bridge, and the fruit — from 1870s Holiness revivalism through Azusa Street, the healing revivals, the Charismatic Renewal, and the rise of the New Apostolic Reformation, to the movement’s present global scale.
The Inverted Gospel Recovery
Finding Your Way Home After Spiritual Control
A trauma-informed recovery guide organized by stage rather than doctrine: understanding what happened, grieving what was lost, rebuilding trust and practice, and a dedicated section for the people supporting someone still on the inside.
The Inverted Gospel Field Guide
A Pastor’s and Elder’s Handbook for Auditing, Correcting, and Rebuilding
The most operational volume in the series: a four-part working handbook for auditing a congregation’s vocabulary, structure, and finances; correcting course without shaming past teachers; rebuilding healthy structures; and a closing set of ready-to-use checklists and templates.
The Inverted Gospel at Home
Liturgies, Prayers, and Practices for Recovering a Descending Faith
A change of genre: the series’ first volume meant to be prayed rather than read. A twenty-week family or small-group devotional keyed to Book One’s twenty doctrines, congregational liturgies for the church calendar, and daily material for personal and family use.
The Descending Gospel
A Constructive Theology for the Whole Church
The one volume that isn’t a response to anything. Mirroring Book One’s twenty doctrines and four-part structure, but written entirely in the affirmative — what each historic doctrine actually is, and why it is good news — with no counterfeit to react against.
The Inverted Gospel and the Nations
Dominionism, Civic Life, and the Politics of the Seven Mountains
A focused deep-dive into Part IV of Books One and Two for readers who encounter this movement through the news rather than the pew — pairing theological analysis of dominionist claims with civic and democratic-theory concerns, and a constructive case for pluralism and patient persuasion.
The Inverted Gospel: Architects
The Lives Behind the Doctrines
Full biographical portraits — not doctrine — of the specific, deceased, publicly documented figures whose personal histories shaped the doctrines examined across the series: Parham, Seymour, Kenyon, Branham, Hagin, Oral Roberts, Wimber, the Shepherding Movement’s founders, C. Peter Wagner, and the Kansas City prophetic community, organized into three historical waves.
Reading It Right Again
A Practical Guide to Reading the Bible Well
The one volume that teaches a positive skill rather than diagnosing a distortion: genre, context, the analogy of Scripture, and grammar, taught directly and practiced through worked case studies drawn from Book Two’s own catalogued terms. The most evergreen and broadly usable volume in the series.
The Inverted Gospel in the Global Church
How a Movement Outgrew Its Birthplace
A four-part global survey — how doctrine travels across borders, regional portraits from West and Southern Africa, East Africa, Latin America, and Asia, a comparative analysis of what stays constant and what changes across cultures, and a closing call to read the whole series alongside majority-world voices, not instead of them.
Eleven volumes, one research project — each one a different door into the same conviction: that naming a pattern of language clearly, and with care, is an act of love toward the Church.