Here's something really cool I found online. It's an interview with Scott Stapp, the former leader of Creed. Back in 2004, Creed broke up and he became "an artist who's a Christian". I heard about it back then, but I never learned anything about it until now.
Here are some things that stood out the most to me:
Prior to this recent renewal, how would you have described your faith?
Stapp: I'd have called myself a struggling Christian who was trying to find holes in everything he had been raised to believe. I was a doubting Thomas. I was raised in a climate where I believed in God because I was afraid of going to hell—and I didn't think that was the right way to fall in love with somebody. I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion—trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn.
It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it. But I finally got to that point after years and years of running from God. Christ stepped in when I asked him.
Can you give me a specific example of how that "relearned love" is manifesting itself in your life?
Stapp: It's simple for me: It's giving without expecting anything in return. Prior to this, the way that I loved people around me, I always expected something—even if that was just expecting them to treat me like I treated them. But now I understand that real love is just giving without expecting anything. That's what love is to me, and that's what I feel that Christ showed us.
For the complete interview, please go to:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/music/interviews/2004/scottstapp-0804.html.
In regards to the first question/response I posted, it's interesting to know that many people believe in God for exactly the same reason. They're afraid of going to hell. To them, Christianity is just "fire insurance". They get close enough to God just to see Him, but not to KNOW Him. To them, God is just a part of their lives. They don't realize that He IS their LIFE!!!!!!!
Another thing is that many people who are rebellious towards God, yet still believe that He exists and that He saved them, have not yet claimed their faith in Him as their own. They just grew up with it. Now, while many of our parents/grandparents/great-grandparents have raised us up in the presence of God, we ourselves must learn to ENGAGE God. The presence of God can be all around us, but if we do not enter in, then we are extremely limited in our experiencing God. The faith of our fathers is great, yes, but it is our own faith that carries us through each moment of our lives day by day, moment by moment.
Now in regards to the second question/response I posted, "relearned love" is a very interesting term. The world has twisted the meaning of the word "love" so much, that very few of us can barely even recognize what true love is anymore. We usually tend to expect something in return for our love towards others. And that's not the way that love, true agape (loving others no matter what), is.
I usually don't see this as something I need to work at and I almost skipped right over the whole statement in the quote. However, the Holy Spirit caught this and stuck it in my heart. Now, I'm about to open up here, so be warned.  I confess to sometimes having trouble with this.  I tend to love and give and love and give and love and give repeatedly over and over and over again and again and again nonstop, without ceasing. And I never expect ANYTHING in return. Then...something bad happens...someone does something wrong against me. What do I do? How do I react? What's going on inside of me? These are questions we all ask ourselves. Well for me, it depends on who did what and why. For me, it can range from totally forgiving and forgetting to...something much less so. It's then that I realize that I do tend to expect others to treat me *as they should*, ESPECIALLY if they're CHRISTIANS. Now, I don't ask for them to treat me exactly as I treat them, but I do tend to expect people to treat me as God would have them treat me. But here's the problem. People aren't perfect. *I* am not perfect. God is perfect. ONLY God is perfect! People are not God. Therefore, I can only expect God Himself to treat me as God would treat me *all* of the time. As for people, I can only *hope* that they'll treat me as God would have them treat me at least *some* of the time. As for me, I can only rely on God alone to give me the strength and to help me walk in His strength and His Holy Spirit to treat others as He would have me treat them as much as possible. In other words, I need to rely on God to help me love everyone unconditionally.
This "unconditional love", however, doesn't seem to be so easy. Yet, there are times when I feel like just lashing out at or totally forgetting about the people who have hurt me. However, I find myself still pouring out love towards them. It's actually kinda funny. My heart is like "love them, love them, love them".  Meanwhile, my mind is like "what in the world do you think you're doing...don't you remember what they've done...you need to protect yourself and all others who get hurt in the process too". Too often, my heart has won those battles with my mind. Unfortunately, time and again, I've almost always found myself right back in a world of pain.
All the more, this just reinforces "conditional love"...even though I didn't know it. I always associated "conditional love" with expecting others to give objects or do something in return for my "agape". However, we all need to be ever so careful of that one thing which can so easily slip right in there without us ever even noticing it: our expectation of being treated the way in which we would like to be treated. | 
I look forward to doing something like that again in the future.