The EFCA Statement of Faith (2008) states that 'God graciously saves from sin and its consequences all who trust in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.' Salvation is accomplished entirely by God's grace, received through personal faith in Jesus Christ — not by human works, religious observance, or moral achievement. The statement affirms regeneration, justification by faith, and adoption into God's family as aspects of the salvation God provides.

The EFCA is firmly in the Protestant evangelical tradition: salvation is by grace alone (sola gratia), through faith alone (sola fide), in Christ alone (solus Christus). The denomination's evangelical identity is inseparable from this soteriology. Evangelism and church planting — among the EFCA's primary organizational priorities — are driven by the conviction that people are lost without saving faith in Christ and that eternal life is available through the gospel.

The EFCA allows diversity on secondary questions within salvation — including the extent of the atonement and the relationship between divine sovereignty and human freedom. Both Calvinist and Arminian perspectives can be found among EFCA ministers and churches, and the denomination's statement is intentionally worded to welcome both. The unity point is the grace-alone, faith-alone, Christ-alone core of evangelical soteriology.