Where's the pattern to follow?

But Gentile believers who had abandoned their traditional religious practices were certainly vulnerable to social pressure, and one may imagine the Galatian believers struggling to create, regulate, and defend a communal lifestyle that took its bearings from the Christ-event but had no precedent or social analogue. Their reception of Paul’s message had disrupted their previous habitus, with its traditional customs and dispositions, but they had yet to develop a robust alternative. In this liminal and uncertain state, it was attractive to place their new convictions about Jesus, and their new experience of the Spirit, within the established matrix of the Jewish tradition. 337