Topic of Luke and Paul and Authority

I need to try to compile a list of topics through which this blog can be organized and related.  Here is one:

The Luke-epilogue/Acts/Pauline-letters complex is not applicable to the pursuit of Jesus' commands.

A starting point of this topic is an examination of the transparently contrived business of the Luke-Paul camp dealing with organizational matters.  I will begin with the insupportable notion--rammed through as a given--that the early Church needed to work out the basics post-Ascension.  By "rammed through as a given" I refer particularly to the fact that the young or the novice in each generation are hustled through initial readings of Acts without being asked to contemplate Acts 1:3, describing Jesus' post-Resurrection, pre-Ascension dealings with the apostles:

To whom he also shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God. (KJV)

And yet the Acts/Paul characters have to sort things out from scratch?

Jesus, it must be remembered, began the organization of his ministry with,

Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. (Matthew 4:19)

As we see, from the start of his ministry Jesus addresses how certain of his followers will take the lead in carrying an appropriately-tailored set of instructions to the whole world (as we soon see him describe more and more broadly the world of "men".)  Moreover, Acts has Jesus taking forty days with his disciples post-Resurrection "speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God."

Are we then supposed to believe (Acts 1:15-26) that the apostles--without Jesus--would have to cast awkwardly about for scriptures to help them decide--by lot, no less--what to do about Iscariot's absence?  Would they really have had to ponder (10:34-35) the propriety of ministering to Gentiles, or have been left by Jesus with no guide for minimal discipline, leading to the comical convention (15:1-33) in Jerusalem?  (It seems altogether fitting that this latter silliness would be followed immediately by Paul and Barnabas squabbling about John Mark.)

Not only must reasonable observers conclude that the Luke/Paul characters are making it up as they go along; one is subjected additionally the spectacle of them politicking as they go along.