Does Acts 3 contain instructions for church offices like pastors, bishops, deacons, and elders?
No. Acts 3 contains no word of church structure and no instructions for pastors, bishops, deacons, or elders. Nothing in it presents the gospel based on death, burial, and resurrection. It remains focused on who Jesus was—the Christ, the Son of the Living God.
Les explains that the passage has no church structure and gives no instructions for pastors, bishops, deacons, or elders. He notes there is nothing in it concerning the gospel based upon death, burial, and resurrection. Instead, it is still based on who Jesus was. Peter confessed Him as “the Christ, the Son of the Living God,” and Martha gave the same confession. Later, the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8 confessed that Jesus the Christ was the Son of the Living God.