Your point is well taken, and I know of a couple of instances where an entire Protestant parish "became" Orthodox along with their pastor after no known length of time for theological training, and in both cases reverted to what they were before. There is a reason that even Orthodox men who have grown up in an Orthodox family their whole lives still have to attend seminary for four or so years if they wish to be ordained to the priesthood. It's not just organizational skills and preaching.
PS I'm going to Russia again next week and it will be magnificent to see the fervor of the faithful there, who waited a whole lifetime for what we all too often take for granted.
Voistinu voskres!
Go with God and have a wonderful trip! The situation of the Faith and the Faithful in Greece has taken an odd turn. Monasticism is flowering all over the country and many of the Patrida's best and brightest are entering the monasteries, rather like at the height of the Byzantine period. The people both love and respect the monastics and to a marginally lesser extent the married clergy, but the hierarchy they disdain and with good reason. The nuns told us that years of oppressive and venal actions by the hierarchs have lead the people to fall away from regular attendance at the liturgies and reception of communion and we saw this with our own eyes. The parishes at the monasteries, however, are full every Sunday and we were informed that the younger priests are working very hard to renew the Faith of the people with some success. The presiction is that disestablishment is not far off and the hierarchy is in for a rough time. Given the dramatic rise of monasticism, however, there is cause for hope, however.