Best Left Untried? Really?

I was reading a book by Kelly Monroe Kullberg on Finding God Beyond Harvard. It's like a story, her very own quest in founding Veritas Forum at Harvard Divinity School.

She started off with the environment of the school, then adding on her own little pieces of the story. What really hit me yesterday while reading in the dental office was this part:

"I (Kelly) came to understand the insight of the brilliant journalist G.K. Chesterton: "It's not that Christianity is tried and found wanting,but that it is considered difficult and left untried." I believe that the culture of Harvard Divinity School and the university beyond it found Jesus difficult, and best left untried."

Do you resonate? This story was back in the 1980s. 30 years now, seems like a similar story to me. Then MN and I were spontaneously meeting up to share and catch up...funny thing is, when she was sharing something, the word fear popped into my mind.

Maybe people are not wanting to get to know God because of fear more than simply the notion of indifference. And that's not what the Gospel is. The Gospel is a gift from God, it's not like you can deny a gift and throw it back - it's on the table, the decision being made is to accept or not.

Although I'm not typing a lot lately, I've been learning a lot. Most of the time, I need the thoughts to really sink in, and to really ponder on them.

Any thoughts on the quote?