In his classic book Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis speaks of two distinct and very different kinds of life: biological life and spiritual life.
In reality, the difference between Biological life and spiritual life is so important that I am going to give them two distinct names. The Biological sort which comes to us through Nature, and which (like everything else in Nature) is always tending to run down and decay so that it can only be kept up by incessant subsidies from Nature in the form of air, water, food, etc., is Bios. The Spiritual life which is in God from all eternity, and which made the whole natural universe, is Zoe [pronounced zow’-eh]. Bios has, to be sure, a certain shadowy or symbolic resemblance to Zoe: but only the sort of resemblance there is between a photo and a place, or a statue and a man. A man who changed from having Bios to having Zoe would have gone through as big a change as a statue which changed from being carved stone to being a real man.
Lewis is saying there is a type of life worth searching for, worth hoping for: Zoe life - or Zoweh, my rendering of the pronunciation, reflected in the name Zoweh Ministries and used hereafter in this book. Zoweh was the thing that motivated Jesus’s whole ministry:
I came that they might have life [Zoweh] and have it to the full.
John 10:10
Lewis continues:
And that is precisely what Christianity is about. This world is a great sculptor’s shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.
An excerpt from The Heart of a Warrior Journal Workbook.
