David & Sally's holiday choices

Play along with me in a little thought experiment for a moment.

Imagine Dave and Sally.

Dave and Sally are married.

They want to go on holiday.

They are thinking of going together.

But Dave wants to go to the mountains and Sally wants to go to the beach.

Should they go to the beach or to the mountains?

Imagine they can’t find a beach up a mountain.

I suppose they could compromise and go to the lakes, but just ignore that possibility for a moment.

There are some binary choices in life where you have to choose one or the other.

Just imagine that Dave and Sally have to go on holiday together and they have to go either to the mountains or the beach.

And imagine this is going to be their only holiday ever: they can’t go to the beach this year and the mountains next year.

And imagine that the mountains and the beach are the same in every other respect: the holidays are exactly the same price, exactly the same distance away and so on.

How on earth do they decide?

This may seem a little theoretical by now but the principle does matter.

And the answer is simple. 

DV Sunday's sermon on Ephesians 5:22ff will answer this great question.