You can’t do everything at the same time! BUT — at each stage of life, it makes sense to check the boxes that lead to other opportunities in the next stage.
Passivity is not an option.
* A youth should prepare himself to start and support a family.
* A family man should also catechize his children, lead family worship, and enlist his children in some form of “ministry” or service.
* A middle-aged guy with godly adult children should take a benign interest in the younger guys around him, especially those who are called to similar occupations.
The idea that sitting and listening to a lecture is the whole duty of a man just does not float my boat!
And yet the Lord Himself said “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the Earth.”