Incestuous Inbreeding of Ideas

The Jesus Seminar has forced us, hopefully, to develop a more complete understanding of who Jesus was, is, and will be. Some of Johnson's conculsions about the "real" Jesus left me with some disturbing questions. For example, according to Johnson, Christianity has never been based on the ministry of Jesus, but rather the continuing experience of the resurrection in the life of believers. My question is then, 'Is this an universial experience or individual one?' and 'Who decides what experiences are genuine?' If Christianity is based on only the resurrection experiences of believer then Paul and the other early church leaders are then the founders of what we know today as Christianity. Has the church then been influenced more by its leadership than the resurrected Christ? Johnson seems remaining to look at only half the picture. One the one hand we have the incarnation and on the other the resurrected Christ and the spread of the Gospel which has transformed life after life after life.