Early, Pauline, Mid, or Late Acts Dispensationalism?

The only church began in Acts 2 when Jesus predicted the baptizing work of the Spirit "not many days from now" (Acts 1:5) first took place according to Peter who said the same thing occurred for Gentiles at Cornelius's house (11:15-17).

Luke, in hindsight recognized the ascension of Christ to the right hand of the Father (Acts 1:9-11) and the foundation of the apostles had been laid (Acts 1:12-26). His mention of Peter and the eleven (twelve in Acts 2:14) pays tribute to the foundation being laid and not needing to wait for Paul (Eph. 2:20). His anachronistic use of "church" in 5:11; 8:1, 3 all occur prior to Paul's conversion. Surely Luke did not think this referred to a Jewish church in distinction from a later body church.

Paul taught that the mystery of Jew and Gentile as co-heirs, co-partakers, co-members of the body was revealed to a plurality of "apostles and prophets" and not exclusively to him or taught by him to others (Eph. 3:5-6). Paul was preaching the same faith that he persecuted before his conversion (Gal. 1:23). He received his first understanding of the church on the Damascus Road when the Lord said he was persecuting Him (Acts 9:4, 5). This indicates the head-body metaphor and that the head-body was already in existence (1 Co.r 12). Peter and Paul agreed to two different spheres of ministry, but obviously in practice these were only focuses and not airtight categories since both preached to Jews and Gentiles (Gal. 2:7-9).

When Peter preached on Pentecost in Acts 2 the message of repentance and baptism in 2:38 is often the only thing that is cited, yet in 2:44 it says "those who had believed" which shows repent and believe are synonymous. This is repeated in 3:19-21 when he says "repent and return" as compared with 4:4 where it says they "believed." Paul does the same thing in Acts 17:30 when he says "repent" but in 17:34 he says some of them "believed." The grammar of Acts 20:21 shows that repentance toward God and belief in the Lord Jesus Christ occur simultaneously because there is one definite article governing both.

The difference in Acts is not Peter and Paul but Christ present and the Spirit present. Christ said I will build My church (Mt. 16:18) and that if He did not go He could not send the Spirit (Jn. 16:7). He departed at the ascension, sent the Spirit on the day of Pentecost in Acts 2 and this was His beginning to build the church on the apostolic foundation which was completed in Acts 1 with the replacement of Judas Iscariot.

The four occasions in Acts where we see the baptism of the Spirit are Acts 2, 8, 10, and 19 (Jews, Samaritans, Gentiles, disciples of John the Baptist). All four groups were baptized by the Spirit and all four groups experienced tongues on that one occasion to signify they were all being added to the same church, not a Jewish church followed later by a body church (Stam, et. al.). Paul even said in Acts 19:4 that when John the Baptist baptized with the baptism of repentance he was telling the people who underwent this baptism "to believe in Him who was coming after him, that is, in Jesus." There is no Pauline, Mid-Acts, or Late Acts Dispensationalism in Acts or anywhere else in the NT. There is only Early Acts Dispensationalism, i.e. Classic Dispensationalism.