Meh, Lol. This is a popular view these days, but it's more of a modern take on the fear of God rather than a New Testament one. Early in Acts, Ananias and Saphira lied to the Holy Spirit, and God snuffed out their lives right in front of everyone for it. In 1st Corinthians 11, Paul warned that the reason many of them were sick and some were dying was because they were causing division in the church, and God was bringing judgment upon them for it. In Chapter 5 of the same book, he commanded they excommunicate a man caught in sin, "for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit might be saved in the Day of the Lord." In Revelations 3, the woman Jezebel was teaching Gnostic heresy, and He eventually warned her that if she did not repent, He was about to kill her and her entire family.
They had a different view of the fear of God back then, and a far more serious one, because the Lord was closer to His church, and as the Lord warned in His teachings, "To whom much is given, much will be required."
I don't develop my views on theology in light of what the modern church teaches very often. Their views are colored by what they see going on now. I form my theology based on what Christianity was like 2,000 years ago. I feel that is what true Christianity will eventually return to, though we are most certainly not there yet.