most Christians who hold to the cultural adaptability paradigm would find the suggestion that we should abandon water baptism and change the Lord’s Supper from bread and wine to french fries and mugs of root beer to be offensive. (Those under ten years old may be the exception!) The critical question then becomes which practices of the New Testament church are solely descriptive and which are normative? Or to put it another way, which are tied to the culture of the first century and which are reflections