Why I am converting to the Russian orthodox church part two

When I was looking for a new church in Texas, I was sick of all the compromises I was seeing all around. Not sin so much, I have sinned and it has always been that men sin. As long as there is repentance things can go on. The thing that bothered me was women clergy. I was raised to be a good feminist so it wasn't that I thought they couldn't do it, it is the question of what changed that now it is ok, when it wasn't before?
This brought the most important question,  "who sez?" Who says that this is ok all the sudden?  Who has the right to tell Joel Osteen to shut up? The answer I was always given, and gave, is the Holy Spirit. But who speaks for the Holy Spirit? I have been convinced that I knew what He said but was proven wrong. So it's not me. Many claiming to speak for him said women clergy was just spiffy and 2000 years of Christian practice was wrong. So really,  no kidding, who gets to say?
I watch too much YouTube. But I started to notice that the most courageous Christian leaders were often eastern orthodox. And not courageous in the predictable culture war ways,  but really coming from a whole different direction.
A particular video really shook my world view. In this video father Ezra asked a simple question "did the gates of hell prevail against the church?" If they did, Jesus was a  liar and if they didn't, where was the church for 1500 years until Luther restored it? The Church of Christ taught that there was a great apostasy after the bible was written. When you share a doctrine with the mormons you might want to be careful.
It was a shock to me that the local church planted on the day of pentecost is still there and alive. That is the church I have to be part of. It is really that simple.

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