He loves us because of our pitiable condition. Then, I think we can discover another reason. He loves us because of what he hopes and intends to make of us by and by. That is what he intends to make out of us. We may fall out with the church.
Men often become so disgusted with it as to leave it and hurl anathemas upon it.
Not so with Jesus. With all its faults and defects he intends to make out of it a glorious church, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing upon the robes which it shall wear. And I am one member of that church. If you go into the workroom of a sculptor you will see him hammering and chiseling on a block of marble which appears to you to be nothing but a block of marble. But take up a hammer and begin to work on it yourself and he will soon push you away.