A number of businesses are discovering that a growing spirituality among workers and a growing spiritual culture help to increase productivity or business success. However, the existing models are inadequate to accomplish these higher levels of productivity. This is a place where churches are in a position to provide healthy models of increased spirituality. Because many spiritual models focus on individualism, the church must help laypersons to see spirituality as best being expressed in community. Many postmodern mindset laypersons already know this, and if their churches do not provide an adequate sense of community, they will seek it out in other places.
Churches can themselves become spiritually impoverished and fail to achieve their kingdom potential.
This often happens when extended family culture, community culture, or denominational culture becomes more important to a church than does spiritual nourishment. In churches where lay leaders have a handle on their own spirituality, and are growing and maturing along their personal spiritual journeys, they are not shaken by or highly resistant to the necessary changes and transitions presented to them as new opportunities to minister. These lay leaders will help their churches be more spiritual. As a Christian cultivation experience, churches can approach businesses and offer processes in spiritual discovery for employees. If churches believe that a Christian approach to spirituality is the healthiest model, then this will shine through in their presentation and dialogue with people in the marketplace.