"Experimentally Acquainted" with Jesus

I have been reading through the works of Jonathan Edwards. It will take a great deal of time to do but I have a deep resolve to continue to glean from the droppings of his table! I have been captured in thought by a statement Edwards made in reference to the seemingly many out there who profess Christ as Savior but don't seem to have an authentic faith. He calls them "experimentally acquainted" with Jesus and the gospel. If you think about the levels of insight in this statement you begin to fathom what seems to be missing in so many who say they are "saved". They have the right lingo, they subscribe to the right compartmentalized fashions in the church, they have good moral tactics, and many seemingly Christian behaviors. But it seems as though a level of reality is missing. It seems something did not happen to them that was permanent or truly life changing. They, like the child that experiments with something to see what it will do, have "experiemented" with Christ. They "gave him a try" but it hasn't changed the essence of their being or caused them to become an worshiper of Jesus with every fiber of their life! They are just "experimentally acquainted" with Jesus but don't truly know HIM as a legitimate child of God. I will continue to ponder the implications of this thought given to us from the table of Edwards feasting on God! Contemplate with me.