1 - FLU FOR THE YOUNG & HEALTHY - NEWS ARTICLE AS INTRO
(Paris) At least 20 million and perhaps as many as 50 million people died in the 1918-1919 pandemic, the highest toll of any disease in the last century. By some estimates, the 1918 pandemic, called “Spanish flu” in the probably erroneous belief that it began in Spain, infected up to a billion people, which was half the world’s population at the time.

The strain was especially lethal for healthy young adults, killing many of the World War I troops who had survived trench warfare, but leaving the very old and the very young -- the more usual victims of flu -- unscathed.

The reason for this is unclear. One theory is that the immune system reacts differently at various stages of life, and that young people may have been particularly vulnerable to an uncontrolled response by cytokines, the proteins that play a big role in causing inflammation.

SOURCE: Scientists resurrect killer genes from 1918 flu pandemic
October 6, 2004. AFP – Health

COMMENT: It may seem odd to us that the Bible warns that new converts shouldn't be given roles of leadership right away (or maybe we're too anxious to put them to work). We are always thankful for young and involved members to get to work, but pride can be the killer for newly converted leaders in the church (cf. I Timothy 3:6).

2 - LOVELESS COMMITTEES - ONE-LINER
God so loved the world that he did not send a committee.

SOURCE: Unknown

COMMENT: Whereas committees can get caught up arguing what to do next, Jesus knew what had to be done and executed the task... er... allowed himself to be executed, so we might live.