"Keep your distance, but don't look like you're keeping your distance."

Remember when Han and Chewie were trying to sneak past the shield on Endor? Han told Chewie to "Keep your distance, but don't look like you're keeping your distance." To which Chewie responded "RawrarrrRawrrrrr!" Then Han explained, "I don't know, fly casual."

When putting together a presentation you should keep it fresh, but don't look like you're trying to keep it fresh. In other words, present casual(ly).

As you put together presentations week after week you want things to follow a structure that is predictable and easy for the church to follow, but you don't want use the exact same slides every week for every element of your service. That just gets boring.

So, don't use the same slide for communion every week, but maybe use the same slide for a month, or have a rotation of a half dozen slides that are for communion. Use a similar font throughout your presentations to tie things together. Use a format for your announcement slides that allows you to plug in the details but leave the structure the same.

Also if your church has a logo you should use it a lot. There's no point to having a logo unless you use it to build some brand recognition. But that's another post.

How do you keep it fresh without being too crazy?