Bahnsen teaches that Christian ethics requires the goal, motive, and standard. Each one is necessary and each one is sufficient. When all is said and done they are equivalent to each other. One cannot take a motivational approach to ethics and leave out the norms and goals of ethics. The same goes for the other two. The goal, motive and standard all require each other in Christian ethics. These three perspectives all end up saying the same thing because God does not give us three competing systems of ethics in the Bible. We can approach it from three different angles, but there is harmony and the conclusion is always the same.

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Ryan Barnhart - Pastor of OGBC
Husband to a beautiful wife, Father to two beautiful girls
"But by the grace of God I am what I am." I Corinthians 15:10

"I confess to you, that if I can but live and die serving the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by Cannibals or by worms. And in the Great Day my Resurrection body will rise as fair as yours in the likeness of our risen Redeemer." - John Paton