Well,

while bowing to the Reverend's obviously greater education and experience in the matter, I will have to take exception to part of what he says here:

Credo: Salvation is not about who is in and who is out: Salvation is experienced corporately, not individually

I'm glad he's pointing out a fact that is often under-appreciated in most of our lives, that is that salvation is experienced corporately, but at the same time he denigrates the idea of a personal experience of salvation and even uses Paul's Damascus road experiece to bolster his argument. I think there are enough references in scripture to events and teachings that show a basis for the belief in personal salvation. We always seem to want to throw out other ideas and replace them with ours. There's never an attempt to see that our ideas can peacefully co-exist and that, in fact, are necessary for each other. While salvation requires the involvement of community, the very act of deciding 'for' Jesus can be that act of salvation. We need to 'work out' our salvation in the context of community but, in truth, salvation is a free gift offered to us through Jesus - each of us, individually. Besides, if we had to wait for a group concensus no one would ever experience salvation...