wadr you are a Hegelian thinker still, ok, "either/or," no in between, determined if i may say so to extract a Fact so that You May Know, and thus be perceived as a Leader, etc.
So, "Peter was an elder," by which you infer the same def of "elder" we have, from the same def of "Church" we have now too, right, "church" to you means that mortgaged building with the guy signed a 501c3, a Contract for Jesus, all leading y'all in choruses of When We All Get to Heaven, yes?
When wadr that is not what "church" means at all imo, not even a little bit, even if some Church members in there i guess. Now does this make your pov "wrong?" Or am i wrong? Which one? See, the Q becomes irrelevant, there is no AT correct answer, Bc you cannot state a single AT from Scripture that i cannot refute from Scripture, as that is the nature of Truth.
"What is currently true will shortly be false," and all that maybe