[PugetSoundSoldier]

If you take the Bible at its word, it says that the Body and Blood is Christ is in Communion.

I say it is minor because communion is not required for salvation. Is partaking in communion required to enter the presence of God?

[Petronski]

I say it is minor because communion is not required for salvation.

Readers of this thread can believe you, or Christ (John 6).

[redgolum]

The early church viewed it as the “Medicine of Salvation”, in that it helped cure our souls of sin.

Now, would someone like a child or catacum (studying for baptism in the case of an adult convert) be saved with out it? Yes.

In the case of someone who refuses to receive or is excluded from communion (excommunicated).. Well it isn't as cut and dried. The problem isn't so much the act of receiving the Lord's Supper, as it is not doing a direct command of Christ. And if you have be screwing up so badly that the Church kicks you out for justifiable reasons, then maybe you need to take a close look at own soul.

So in strict terms, you can be saved if you don't partake of the Lord's Supper, but why wouldn't you want to?