You cannot possibly know what and how we understand the gospel of our salvation. What you term "rote and dry" is simply the ability to apply Scriptural truth to the questions being asked. If I know what God has said about a certain thing, I am better equipped to give an answer to anyone who asks me of the "hope" that is in me. Nobody wants to hear boatbums' philosophy or boatbums' gospel - it is way too an important issue to leave it up to fallible human beings to tell us, not when we can KNOW from the very word of God, Himself. The Bible SAYS that it is GOD-BREATHED which means that every word is inspired by the Holy Spirit of God and not one word is omitted that we must know. That is why we CAN trust what Scripture says, and the Gospel is clearly stated.
You say that you "have sat still and prayed silently long enough over the years to become truly reborn...not reborn in my mind with a bunch of learned truth. But truly changed within", but what is your mind if not your internal spirit? Your mind is your connection to reality and the new spirit nature we get when we are born again comes through faith in Jesus Christ - it is not something that just happens if we sit still long enough. I am not belittling your "change" that you are happy about, but it is not the rebirth Jesus spoke about if it doesn't come from the way HE said it must - and that is through belief, faith, trusting in Jesus Christ to be our Savior.
Do not let yourself be turned away from knowing the truth of God as He revealed to us in Holy Scripture - it is a HUGE part, though, of course, not the ONLY part of knowing Him. Don't allow yourself to be deceived from the simplicity that is in Christ. It is FAR from rote and definitely not dry, but wonderful, freeing, uplifting and full of everlasting joy and peace.
It sounds much like the 'burning busom' of MORMONism fame.