Fear of failure raises another barrier to lay ministry. What if I pray with somebody and there are no visible results? I’m sure that occurred often in the New Testament era, too, but only the miracles were recorded. I once heard Oral Roberts say, “Nobody has ever experienced more unanswered prayers for healing than I have.” We don’t always see immediate answers to our prayers. When we first started healing services at University Presbyterian Church in Seattle, some of our elders were uneasy. We