I am not exactly sure what you mean by the simple “sense God imparts to His own” but I have noticed through the years (I am a Christian) that many Christians are theologically conservative, but socially liberal. There is thus a most serious disconnect between what they say they believe, and what they actually practice politically or socially. In other words, even though Genesis 3 and Romans 1-5 clearly tells us that all of us are sinners down to every last man with no exceptions to the rule (except for Jesus Christ), many Christians have bought into the superficial, leftist cadre that communities are good and individuals are evil. This superficiality is a by product of a very weak understanding of the Scriptures, and has created any number of problems for us in the church, and in our country as well.
I know many Christians who voted for Obama in the 2008 election. I was stunned by this. I suspect that He would have never made it without them. But then again, many (if not most) Christians today are far more interested in music than they are in the Lord, or in the Bible, and that Obama was their 60’s rock star is thus hardly surprising. So, strangely enough, many Christians criticize Hollywoodism for their corruption of our society, yet every Sunday, big entertainment and massively expensive sound systems take over the church services so that it becomes a veritable Woodstock Christianity. It seems that much of our modern worship has almost degenerated to the point of Exodus 32 - operation golden calf when they rose up to play. This actually scares me far more than what I see going on politically and socially in our country precisely because no one senses that there is something seriously wrong here, and they defend it far more than they do the Christian faith.
Polls taken in America show that as many as 70 percent identify themselves with Christianity. Merely belonging to a church or having had some kind of vague salvation experience doesn’t mean someone is obeying Christ, and following him. It also doesn’t mean they are destined to residency in the Kingdom of Heaven, and I would contend that those who denigrate the culture of the Church with pop culture probably wouldn’t want to live in the Kingdom of Heaven. Christianity is to them a matter of blending and a license for immorality, divorce, abortion, pornography, paganism, political correctness, tolerance and fitting into the world. It is very difficult to see the evil in the world while trying so very hard to belong to it.
I guess to simplify what I meant in my first response I will say that I consider Christians to be those who are making every attempt to follow Jesus Christ in their personal and public lives. That requires accepting basic truths scripture gives us about who and what we should be and who and what we shouldn’t be. Politics doesn’t have to be any part of that, but if so, then the politics have to agree with the basic principles God has given us through scripture. I’m not looking to create a dominion for God through conservative politics, nor do I want to live in a godless dominion created by liberals.
If I’m confusing the issue, I apologize. I’ve got the hired help out on a project that needs my attention, and my scatterbrain is distracted.