A loner’s spiritual experiences are rarely to be trusted, but when they are trustworthy, they are the most trustworthy of all.
When Israel had, in the main, become apostate, God sent them a man who had been separated from human company for years, John the Baptist, and anyone in Israel who refused John was damned by God. John’s message and baptism was not optional for the Jews.
Usually, when someone has a spiritual experience apart from the community of faith, it is an experience of their own imagination, or even a demonic encounter. But at those very rare times when someone has a spiritual experience with Christ who is detached from the ordinary fellowship of the body of Christ, it is always a matter of life or death that we hear what that person has to say.
Stay humble, and be prepared always to hear from God when He speaks to the body of Christ by someone who is not a part of the daily fellowship that we know. When God sees a body growing too comfortable in a way that does not bear the best fruit, He may send a stranger in to re-arrange things and make us more perfect in His sight.
Pastor John