And here is the issue: experience is not in itself an authority! It is one of the means, along with our reason, that we receive what is given to us by the authority of Scriptures and Holy Tradition. Moreover, Scriptures and Tradition point to the One who is the authority—the Word and Wisdom who is God. I am surprised, as a scholar who has embraced Orthodoxy for several decades now, to find in an Orthodox writer that same emphasis on experience that is so widely accepted in Protestant circles—an emphasis made famous by Albert Outler, and erroneously called the Wesleyan quadrilateral. Wesley would not have recognized himself in Outler’s insistence that Christian bodies should make decisions based on Scripture, tradition, reason, and experience, all equally authoritative. Moreover, Outler himself in later life, seeing how his contemporaries had run with his idea, and turned experience into a trump card (in matters of debate) that gave an “empirical means of knowing,” regretted the way that he had framed the matter (Outler, “The Wesleyan Quadrilateral in John Wesley,” Wesleyan Theological Journal 20.1, 9).

https://orthodoxreflections.com/experience-prophetic-faithfulness-and-orthodoxy/