Years ago I heard a Christian teacher advice young single or married men and women never to ask marriage advice from a divorced person. "Why would you ask someone who failed in a marriage how to succeed in one?" He admonished blithely.
He missed the wisdom of experienced failure. If one were to plan to open a coffee shop on Main Street, would he or she not be wise to interview the person whose coffee shop failed as to what pitfalls caused the business to go under? We can learn from other people's mistakes and are wise to do so.
We are both cruel and unwise to be so dismissive (Titus 2:3-4).
